Tracy Chapman was one of my favorite artists while I was in high school. Her self-titled first album was released in 1988. Several years later, while completing my masters degree at Boston College, I serendipitously lived in the town house in Boston in which Chapman had apparently written her first album while studying at Tufts. …
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It’s time to make the donuts…making the ordinary extraordinary!
Extraordinary people rise above the ordinary because they embrace life with gusto! They imbue their world with a sense of meaning, of purpose and they embrace their world with enthusiasm, encouragement and respect. No task is mundane to a truly extraordinary person. Every circumstance faced by one who has chosen to be extraordinary - no matter how big or small, how apparently meaningful or insignificant - is potentially a womb for greatness.
All’s right with the world…tranquility as a point of departure
Pippa's Song, by Robert Browning The year 's at the spring, And day 's at the morn; Morning 's at seven; The hill-side 's dew-pearl'd; The lark 's on the wing; The snail 's on the thorn; God 's in His heaven— All 's right with the world! I love this little poem as it …
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U.S. Farmers Cope with Roundup Resistant Weeds: Address the Cause not the Symptom
There was an excellent article in the New York Times yesterday that underlines the risk of addressing symptoms rather than the underlying cause when addressing problems (see http://tinyurl.com/3yw758o). Such an approach offers appealing and typically profitable short-term gains, but invariably produces long-term side-effects and costs that outweigh the initial benefits. A biodynamic and organic farmer friend of mine argues that weeds thrive only in compromised soil. …
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Brevity is the Soul of Wit
Mastery in any activity is revealed when the doer makes the action seem effortless. I have seen mastery revealed in many areas of human activity - in the kitchen, on the sports field, in the theater, in the classroom - and the signature qualities of one who has mastered his art are grace and poise. …
Practical Wisdom: What’s your Job Description?
I once heard wisdom described as the "sense of the fitness of things." Wisdom is more than knowledge, it is a sensitivity of perception and consideration that facilitates excellence in thought, word and action. Wisdom in thought combines knowledge with accurate intuition. Wisdom in speech is saying the right thing at the right time or as …
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Principally Speaking: Solving Difficult Problems
I happened upon an interesting principle that understood and properly applied, can make life much easier. This principle became obvious during a recent horseback riding lesson while working on my trot-canter upward transition. Without boring you with the details, the principle I learned or perhaps better put, rediscovered, is this: the solution does not always lie at …
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The Top 7 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Good Life by Gregg Hake
Leonardo DaVinci once wrote, "Life well spent is long." Socrates wrote some 2,000 years earlier, "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." To be sure, a life well lived is ideal, but optional. While I typically prefer to consider the positive attributes of any subject in order to provide stepping stones for …
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A New Shade of Green: Work Smarter, not Harder
Here is valuable insight on how to work smarter, not harder... My father-in-law gave me a fantastic Wall Street Journal Article last week entitled "A New Shade of Green" by the first director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), William Ruckelshaus (see http://tinyurl.com/2d9l9jn). His basic argument is that today's environmental challenges are far different than those faced by our country …
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Peace on earth: Dream BIG!
Everybody can be somebody. Everyone is free to make a difference in this world. Raul Midon, guitarist and singer, presents a pair of lovely songs at the TED 2007 conference. The first, entitled "Everybody," is inspiring and as the TED summary notes "category-defying" and the second, "Peace on Earth," carries a powerful message that I hope …
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