“…we as a society should be more mindful of what passes for sensation. For it is mindfulness — the steady, deliberate processing of experience-that we’ve been missing when we talk about our hunger for tactility, authenticity, or individuality in the material world. It is mindfulness-the experience of thinking through feeling — that makes craft, craft,” Julie Lasky, in a wonderfully thoughtful commencement address at Cranbrook Academy of Art on May 9, 2008 (via designobserver). Read it and be reminded of what we are really doing with our lives.