Peter Durand

Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Kelly’

A Visionless Future

In Ecology, Sustainability on November 21, 2008 at 2:05 am
Kevin Kelly, a sketch

Kevin Kelly, a sketch

No hiding it: Kevin Kelly is one of my heroes. As a dad, as a writer and as a Christian, Kevin is a tremendous optimist. Which is why I was struck by his recent post, The Missing Near Future, on The Technium, the feederblog for his book-in-progress.

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Kevin Kelly: The Universe Is Conspiring to Help Us

In Travel on November 11, 2008 at 3:45 am

From a letter Kevin sent out for Christmas 2006. It was picked up by NPR’s This I Believe Project:

Man praying

When the miracle flows, it flows both ways. When an offered gift is accepted, then the threads of love are knotted, snaring both the stranger who is kind, and the stranger who is kinded. Every time a gift is tossed it lands differently – but knowing that it will arrive in some colorful, unexpected way is one of the certainties of life. Read the rest of this entry »