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Monthly Archives: June 2012
“may my heart always be open to little birds” – an e.e. cummings Pocket Poem
(Here’s a photo of baby phoebes in their nest above a window on the garage) may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and [...]
Two stickies to make the meaningless meaningful
These days I have a sticky note on each of my two To Do lists (one is for work and one is for music). Lost most people, I can get lost in the weeds and the larger picture can escape me when trying to accomplish tasks on my To Do list. The day can default [...]
You can be the largest or the most agile, not both (Strengths, You Can’t Have Them All)
At the beginning of a United flight to O’Hare they started with a commercial with their CEO talking. He said, “We have the largest network in the world. Because we’re so large we can be agile.” Wrong. You can have one or the other – largest or most agile, not both. Larger doesn’t make more [...]
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Teddy Bears to the Rescue – Build a Bear Charity Team Building
The Game The Teddy Bears to the Rescue charity team building activity is an incredible and uplifting charity team building experience with an opportunity for everyone to shine. This gently competitive event is chock full of fun activities that culminate in the creation of snuggly teddy bears that will find a home in the arms [...]
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“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
Here are two quotes from poet farmer Wendell Berry on the subject of joy. He doesn’t take this subject lightly and lets joy sit in the same seat as rueful life experience. There’s a heft to these quotes that make them useful to me and hopefully to you today as well. “Expect the end of [...]
I know change starts with me because…