Long time readers know that I have an abiding interest in mashups.
One of the virtues of our digital age is the marvelous fluidity with which we can combine, separate, recombine and redivide seemingly unrelated sounds and images.
This video is a kind of mashup tone poem that stretches, flexes and reinforces words and the meanings of words.
Yummy.
Real care and real change in our health care system require exactly this kind of fluidity and facility with non-intuitive leaps of imagination.
This is much more difficult than it looks mainly because our adult minds are constantly drawn back to the literal and the familiar.
Words are our prison— and our wings.
or…
The same word cannot be spoken meaning two different things in the same sentence at the same moment.
Words can be scary, or comfortable. Words can be problems, or exhilarating. Words can be mean, or words can be beautiful.
It depends on their environment.
Good video! Point well taken, and a great point for me, having just finished Dr. Power’s book. Now, which of your books is the best companion to that one? I want to read it next.
That was good. I kept thinking, “please don’t be a coke commercial, please don’t be credit card commercial, please don’t be a jeans commercial.” And it wasn’t!