Matt Laska

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation is an organization that assists people experiencing food and housing insecurity. In this post, their inspiring work was used for a hypothetical experience design concept in a continuing education class with Experiential Studio Berlin. Currently, the JBJ Soul Foundation operates three community restaurants in New Jersey, where customers pay what they can, and everyone is invited to sit down, eat, and be part of the experience. Here we recommend

July 12, 2026 Have I ever told you about the time I was on a boat in the middle of the ocean? It was an old, single-masted whaling ship, made all of wood. It was me, the captain, and his mate. We were sailing north to deliver something, but they wouldn't tell me what. All I can remember are the terrible sounds, as I was tethered below deck, near to the captain's rifle (just out of reach) and his Bible (just within). The joints of the wooden hull bound on themselves as they ra

Mar 16, 2026 Excerpt from a letter to a poet- I have a memory of something that didn't happen. A meeting between two great minds. I can picture it so clearly, like a myth. She was the one-and-only empathic spirit of the 20th century, and she visited Thomas Merton’s hermitage at the Abbey of Gethsemani in the summer of 1942. It was the angel, Simone Weil. Have I not told you told you about this!? Shame on me. Well, buckle up, dear friend, because it was an affair of the utmost