time isn’t money; relationship is.
A six-year-old boy in Colorado was recently expelled from school and charged with sexual harassment for showing affection for a classmate by kissing her on the cheek. The school had a zero tolerance policy for sexual harassment and he had crossed that line, most likely unknowingly. When the Virginia Tech …
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LIFE IS A VERB CAMP – A Camp for Adults who want to Love Well, Live Fully, Let Go Deeply, and Make a Difference September 24-27, 2015 Asilomar Retreat by the Sea, Pacific Grove, CA Like everything else, Life is a Verb Camp evolves. It is living into my vision …
thinking thursday
mind Oh, if you love design, and you love Apple products, you will love this on the shape of things to come: “Jobs’s taste for merciless criticism was notorious; Ive recalled that, years ago, after seeing colleagues crushed, he protested. Jobs replied, ‘Why would you be vague?,’ arguing that ambiguity was a …
I am not raising a badass Marine
I want to share something in this safe space, with one request – that in any discussion we have about this, we not denigrate the person who sent me these messages. Obviously this is a lot more about her than about me. I am sharing it because I believe many …
poetry wednesday : she’s not gone
Neither is the poet gone, though he died last week on Valentine’s Day. “You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems,” Dwight Garner wrote in the New York Times on Sunday. “Come as you are, this important and emotionally committed poet told us.” She’s Not Gone Philip Levine Someone enters …
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“We re-engineer the behavioral and developmental gaps that are prevalent among youth in public housing. We use bicycles, hard training, and tough love to accomplish this monumental task. From top to bottom, we operate in a different way, with a different approach, in a unique style. It’s hard to articulate …
poetry wednesday : blackberrying
on the 52nd anniversary of her death, a poem by Sylvia Plath Blackberrying BY SYLVIA PLATH Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly, A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea Somewhere at the end of it, heaving. …
be responsible for your own well-being
I didn’t fully appreciate my red hair when I had it. There were too many downsides: nicknames like “Big Red” and “Carrot Top.” And the companion un-tannable skin splattered with freckles that became huge in the summer on some parts of my body, like my face and shoulders, but never …
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When I left my job and opened my own business 19 years ago, I started by taking almost all the consulting gigs that came my way because I was AMAZED at how much money I could make as a corporate consultant. I had quit my job to stay home with …
thinking thursday
mind Having watched money and connections land many a book on the best-selling lists, I find this to raise an interesting point about the dangers of pretending privilege doesn’t exist. “Because in this world where women will sit around discussing the various topiary shapes of their bikini waxes, the conversation …
