Archive for May, 2006

Rest as Action

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Ironically, living in NY has for the first time, made me conscious of my need to rest. And perhaps for the first time in a while I am understanding that rest (reflection, relaxation, breathing) is action, too.
I thought I would take a moment to reflect on this, after find rest a confluence for this week’s conversations.
It started with [...]

Google Trends

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Just launched: google trends

Happy searching….

Simple to Simple vs Complex to Simple

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

This post is a summary, mostly to serve as a reminder, of some of my thinking at this time about complex and simple…
The Short: An Analogy
Today we live in a world that would prefer to eat a table spoon of white sugar over digesting an apple for instance, and in the digestion ending up with [...]

Questions…

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

“An answer is always the part of the road that is behind you. Only questions point to the future.” - Jostein Gaarder
What questions are you posing for your future?

Intrinsic Impact of the Alphabet?

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

"The alphabet, independent of the spoken languages it transcribes, or the information it makes available, has its own intrinsic impacts." - Robert Logan, The Alphabet Effect  [more on the alphabet effect found here]
I read this line while reading The Alphabet vs The Goddess this morning I am again entranced in wonder, what might these intrinsic impacts be? [...]

An Insight on Change…

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

"…for people in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not."
- Neil Postman, from The End of Education p.93 - 99

Impatience…

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Impatience is a virtue…I don’t (often*) possess.
I am working on it but in the meantime thought it would be best to laugh at myself…
A new friend sent me this in response to my quest for patience (and slowness, when appropriate…)
"Your flower:  Morning Glory (L. Impatiens)"
Naturally, I quite like the flower:

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Every Person is a World

Monday, May 1st, 2006

I have always loved the line from the Talmud "every person is a world". All of us have the power to change the world, and to be leaders - we are the leaders of our body’s world, we speak our world into being, and the questions we ask shape it!
And now for an image to match the [...]