December 2011
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Václav Havel: "Politics and Conscience" ...
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As a boy, I lived for some time in the country and I clearly remember an experience from those days: I used to walk to school in a nearby village along a cart track through the fields and, on the way, see on the horizon a huge smokestack of some hurriedly built factory, in all likelihood in the service of war. It spewed dense brown smoke and scattered it across the sky. Each time I saw it, I...
November 2011
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Carondelet Leadership Academy Wins Highly...
Carondelet Leadership Academy was one of only seven Missouri districts and charter schools awarded the Title II.D Competitive Technology Grant through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for our Technology Enhanced Real Time Learning Project.
This grant, worth $82,057, will provide around 102 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students with an iPad, keyboard, and...
October 2011
2 posts
“I think what we need is a return to a belief not in liberty, because that is...”
– London Review of Books interview with Tony Judt
“No doubt today’s economy is why I’ve had questions of late from recent college...”
– Of all places, the Subaru Drive magazine. Owner Spotlight: Dennis Coello
Watchhumanbn:
Purle nestles in with Ollie babes
September 2010
1 post
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crybaby (cry,baby!)
I tear up when something touches a little vat of tenderness that I carry with me all the time. Sometimes I am a little embarrassed at the what some (including me) might consider the dreck that touches it, but hell I am a mostly a lowbrow girl. Goofy, saccharine commercials on TV? Check. Hallmark Channel quality movies that I don’t especially like? Check. Thinking about the sadness and struggle...
August 2010
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empty calories (and words) suck!
Hey recruiters (and anyone else to whom this is applicable). Quit using meaningless words in your written presentations. Bring the beef instead!
Words matter.
Sometimes I will see a write up along the lines of: ”Billy Bob has an impressive background.” After I wipe the vomit off my keyboard I just might keep reading. Look, it is a tough world out there, and we need to face the facts. The...
February 2010
3 posts
a special place in hell
All violence is injustice. The fire of hatred and violence cannot be extinguished by adding more hatred and violence to the fire. The only antidote to violence is compassion. And what is compassion made of? It is made of understanding. When there is no understanding, how can we feel compassion, how can we begin to relieve the great suffering that is there? So understanding is the very real...
me.
I’ve recruited people for commercial product development for over 15 years. I cut my teeth on C/C++ multi-platform software developers – medical device products, embedded systems, and hardware design. I like that world – it is challenging. I will always have a soft spot for folks with that kind of experience because I like their development rigor and ability to work well with challenging...
In April of 2008 I wrote this: I needed to see this today, right now: Right after I started my business, while I was still in the midst of the terror and doubt, I remember being amazed at how helpful and kind some people were. They still are, only now I am less stiff, and am beginning to trust in this thing that is building. It has been months since I woke up scared in the middle of the night...
January 2010
6 posts
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion; to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance. - Pema Chodron
“Each day, we’re given many opportunities to open up or shut down. The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we can’t handle whatever is happening.” Pema Chodron
A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us. - Pema Chdron
who are you, anyway?
I had the opportunity to ponder who I am and what I do when someone asked about my technical recruiting background. It turned into a little thought experiment/essay. I don’t know what to think of it except it is a good reminder for me, and maybe it says something about how I work.
I have been recruiting people for companies using open source skills since they began to gain acceptance in...
I LOVE IT WHEN THE CLOUDS LIFT
“Once we recognize that other sentient beings - people, animals, and even...”
– The Joy of Living, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
July 2009
2 posts
Drama is a drug.
Yes, that is right. Drama is a drug.
May 2009
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What is at issue here is not culture as a value, as understood by critics of civilization such as Huxle, Jaspers, and Ortega y Gasset, but the necessity for enlightenment to reflect on itself if humanity is not to be totally betrayed. Dialectic of Enlightenment - Horkheimer & Adorno
July 2008
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too many options!
nothing makes me feel feel the paralysis of choice more pointedly than the toothpaste aisle in my grocery. good lord!
June 2008
6 posts
Love this guy: →
Our mission is to provide a risk-management perspective to the often political debate of global warming. We aim to quantify the possible consequences of various international, national, statewide, and personal actions (or inaction), based upon economic and climate models provided by top scientists in their...
“it is sometimes the curse and the blessing of the poet to perceive without yet...”
– audre lorde
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off the table
what happens when you take all limits away?
whether it be ethics, morality, self-imposed limitations or external pressures shaping us - what happens when those are gone. myths and rules, both comfortable and terrible, cease to speak.
what springs up? what do we create in that space? how do we see, and explain, both ourselves and others?
what else is there, anyway?
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possible
breathing in i calm my body | breathing out I smile
What happens between?
I am impatient. I want. I want to see what happens, then I want to see what happens next. I want to feel, and then feel more.
I am learning to be in the space between, to lose myself in the moment that is, now, instead of thrusting into the next act, event, or possibility.
The most creativity, anticipation,...
WatchShe is not yet ready for her closeup.
3 legged dog
While riding my bike today I saw a lil’ old man, walking his lil’ old three-legged dog with attention and devotion. It touched me to see the dog bounding through the grass. Later, I thought of this snippet: Help me to love the small, the damaged, the three-legged dog, without sorrow. I think of that phrase often. How do you love as is, without sorrow?
Takes practice.
“Heal...
May 2008
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buddha business
Funny. As I work to develop real mental chops in order to calm my mind, I am have a growing awareness that calm is not passive. Acceptance of things as they are can lead to action that is more powerful. Life on life’s terms - especially in regards to business is a powerful starting point. I need to percolate on this - the words are not coming.
April 2008
2 posts
impatience
isn’t it funny, the stuff we least tolerate in others is usually that which we dislike in ourselves.
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