These days the value of money is meaningless...we ask ourselves, "What assets do we have that are real?" Well, what is real is our experience, our connectedness, our interactions with the places, people, flora, fauna, and beauty in the world.
There is alot of talk about leadership in academia and these days I am wondering whether developing leaders is more divisive than it is uniting. Simply -- how much paper and how much coddling do we need to generate to get meaningful action. Doesn't matter the politics of our homeland; it is done everywhere. Truth is, we don't need this.
We all know what to do.
While spelunking the internet last night, I came across www.clevelandsnewstory.com and watched a live blog of a large event designed to connect ecological entrepreneurs with an impoverished greater community. And I read the beauty that was posted there and it got me thinking: I'm tired of the so-called triple bottom line of "people, planet, prosperity." What about bringing it home? Following Peter McDermott's suggestion of a quadruple bottom line, I propose:
Purpose Place Connectedness Health
I'm wishing that for us all, at this time, in this world.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Lipstick!?!
I'd love to see the woman put lipstick on an angry pit bull...
Where is the United State when the very best conservative veep candidate is a woman who abhors nature unless she can eviscerate it, abhors life unless she can torture it and seems to enjoy blood letting as much as a leech?
And what if they win; what if the old man has that stroke he seems like he may have every time he looks in her direction?
As a society, as a world, we could, and perhaps we even should, turn our backs to that...
As though they are not really there.
Where is the United State when the very best conservative veep candidate is a woman who abhors nature unless she can eviscerate it, abhors life unless she can torture it and seems to enjoy blood letting as much as a leech?
And what if they win; what if the old man has that stroke he seems like he may have every time he looks in her direction?
As a society, as a world, we could, and perhaps we even should, turn our backs to that...
As though they are not really there.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
The End of Black Politics
In today's NYTimes Magazine, I read a quote from Artur Davis, "If Obama is President, it will no longer be tenable to go to the white community and say you've been victimized." Followed by, " And I understand the poverty and the condition of black American and the 39 percent unemployment rate in some communities. I understand that. But if you go out to the country and say you've been victimized by the white community, while Barack Obama and Michelle and their kids are living in the White House, you will be shut off from having any influence."
Yes, this is likely true. And it is within reason. It would be appropriate if and only if we could say this with the comfort that people would be seen for their character and gifts; not for their race.
It is not that it solves anything for a black man to be elected president. An affluent, articulate, educated black man does not represent middle America. It answers the question: "Can a black man be elected?"
Indeed -- if he rises above the mischaracterizations of race; if he rises above stereotypes and archetypes.
But what happens, then, to the average black man? What is the perception of the average black woman? Do they rise in the tide of their perceived brother, or do they fall through the cracks by falling woefully short?
Mr. Obama -- remember that we who are more gifted and more fortunate are here to lift the spirits and lives of those who are not.
Yes, this is likely true. And it is within reason. It would be appropriate if and only if we could say this with the comfort that people would be seen for their character and gifts; not for their race.
It is not that it solves anything for a black man to be elected president. An affluent, articulate, educated black man does not represent middle America. It answers the question: "Can a black man be elected?"
Indeed -- if he rises above the mischaracterizations of race; if he rises above stereotypes and archetypes.
But what happens, then, to the average black man? What is the perception of the average black woman? Do they rise in the tide of their perceived brother, or do they fall through the cracks by falling woefully short?
Mr. Obama -- remember that we who are more gifted and more fortunate are here to lift the spirits and lives of those who are not.
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