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mcenteR
Watashi wa JET CD wo kiki-desu. Watashi wa itsu '96 ni Sublime wo kiki-deshita. Watashi wa shindai wo yoktowari, to ase wo tabe-desu. Watashi wa bikko (no) i watashi wa ninensei wo iri-deshita. SonoSono wa... More »
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that canadian girl
In an attempt to achieve my goal of a Master's, I applied for the Gaia Scholarship. It took me quite some time before I decided how I wanted to answer their questions. Here is what... More »
Money and power... and what's more important.
Emily
I was in a conversation the other day with a good friend of mine. We have been close friends since the late nineties and have seen each other through the incredible mini-crises and celebrations of... More »
Mother's Day Tribute #2
Peridot
Today, I was sharing some videos with Samme and he suggested I watch a duet with Tracy Chapman and Luciano Pavarotti . This led me to beauty with Bono from U2 and Pavarotti ... singing Ave Maria. Granted, Bono's... More »
What's your favorite inspirational quote?
Josh
"God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill. I hope so. He may well be with us in all manner of controversial stuff. Maybe, maybe not. But the one thing we... More »
Always dream big.
tangerinepuddle
I will cause the words "Human Sustainability" to be as common a household phrase worldwide as "Environmental Sustainability" is in the Pacific Northwest. I currently live in Portland, Oregon. My third relocation in five... More »
If could report the news in your world, what would you share?
Andrew
Interesting question for me, as I'm a newspaper reporter, and therefore mass media. There is a lot of crap out there that is depressing to cover. Do we really need to know more about this,... More »
Article on Conformity for Proteus Life Magazine
Kirk
Conformity By Kirk Fisher “The poet goes to the edge of experience, and feels those things that don’t yet have a name.” --T.S. Eliot Teaching the principles of anything, without first changing mindset... More »
Who has been a beacon for you recently?
gabriele
I love to think about philosophy but I have been looking for action lately. I chose Women to Women International as my action arm since I work full time. They fund women in worn-torn countries... More »
How can you be the change that you want to see in the world?
Jon
Well we could buy a big dog and call her Talk so that we could say, hand on heart, that we walked our talk on a daily basis...but seriously folks...consistency and dharmic congruence between thought,... More »
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?
Water is essential for soup - but soup is more than water. Competence is essential for business - but business is more than competence. What is added to water gives the 'value' of the soup. What is added to competence gives the value delivered by business. Competence is becoming a commodity, Information is becoming a commodity. State of the art technology is becoming a commodity. So what is going to differentiate businesses? How are these commodities to be designed to deliver value? That means design. That means creativity. That means new ideas. Ideas are going to become more important in business than they have ever been.
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
Traditional thinking is all about "what is;" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
Charles Bukowski Fans
A group for fans of Charles Bukowski to meet and talk about his work. From wikipedia: Henry Charles Bukowski ( August 16 , 1920 - March 9 , 1994 ), was a Los Angeles poet... More »
End Poverty Now!
I really believe in the good of the human spirit despite what our countries government as displayed as "The American Way". I believe Americans have the power to make a huge contribution and difference in... More »
