Filed under: Community, Politics on 20 January 2011 @ 18:58
Remembering on both sides, that civility is not a sign of weakness and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us, instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first […]
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Filed under: Business, Community, Politics, Technology on 29 May 2009 @ 11:19
The other day I was browsing a post by Chet Richards (Certain to Win) at Defense and the National Interest on 4GW comes to a town near you, 4GW being an acronym for fourth generation warfare. In particular, what caught my eye was a statement Richards makes about disconnection from (or marginalization by) the nominal […]
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Filed under: Community, Embodiment, Health, Writing on 21 April 2009 @ 17:04
After a too long hiatus, Ramblemuse Touch Points (RMTP) is active again, now updated to current WordPress and restyled to match the main Ramblemuse.com theme. For help with the learning curve on creating a WordPress theme from scratch, I can point to a tutorial at wpdesigner with thanks. The tutorial was organized the way I […]
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Filed under: Community, Health, Politics, Uncategorized on 15 July 2008 @ 22:32
Back toward the end of last year, I’d posted a short piece about the book Three Cups of Tea, profiling Greg Mortenson’s work building schools in remote parts of Pakistan. NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof just wrote a column about Mortenson — It Takes a School, Not Missles. Kristof also extends the discussion and a […]
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Filed under: Business, Community, Embodiment, Science, Technology, Writing on 2 June 2008 @ 17:04
One of the books I’d gotten when I’d started thinking seriously of freelance writing a couple of years ago was Media Bistro’s first book — “Get a Freelance Life” by Margit Feury Ragland. I didn’t note it when I mentioned Media Bistro a few days ago, but the website includes sections for jobs and profiles, […]
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Filed under: Community, Embodiment, Politics on 9 December 2007 @ 17:55
We too often seem to live in a world in which few understand the method of achieving a goal by fostering conditions in which that goal would naturally occur. Groups opposing the rate of abortions try to reduce that rate by legal force rather than by working to create conditions of education and economic means […]
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Filed under: Community, Health on 18 November 2006 @ 19:15
This Sunday, being the 3rd Sunday in November, is the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims, according to the World Health Organization (WMO). “In a split second, a traffic crash transforms forever the life of a family. Behind each statistic, there are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, colleagues, […]
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Filed under: Community on 9 September 2006 @ 22:46
In browsing around, I came across three authors, interlinked with each other, all working on processes of building community and creating change. I first ran into Juanita Brown and the World CafĂ©s by finding her book while browsing around Amazon. The initiative literally developed after a meeting on a very rainy day in Marin, during […]
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