March 26, 2018
This week we’re rolling up our sleeves. From the Mile-High Broadcast Tower and Media Center, you’re listening to The 200 Project, and this is The Daily Minute. Monday: The Buddy System Everyone knows that nauseating empty feeling we call loneliness, and as time goes forward we can experience it more often. The 200 Project is diving into this vast and growing social problem, looking to pry it open and expose some practical solutions. The Daily Minute offers you this primer from Forbes magazine. Read more here. Tuesday: A Companion to The Buddy System And again, this one from a recent New York Times article, reproduced here in chapter and verse: Social isolation is as bad for your health as obesity or smoking. Get a group […]
March 25, 2018
A thing called “the edge” entered our lexicon long ago. “Living on the edge,” we might hear someone say, or perhaps a thing described as “edgy” or “over the edge.” We sense that the edge describes a sort of desperate frontier between something and something else, but our curiosity about this thing, this edge, curiously stops there. It is because there is something powerful and unspeakable about the edge, something our minds reflexively protect us from. The edge is a state, a condition we can live in – a plasma form of the mind, like fire. The edge questions. It doubts. It needs to know why, and it will. It is restless and tireless. The edge is the constant search for the real. Water on […]