It is forty years since the Summer of Love. And there are “reenactments” up all over the country. I am trying to imagine what this group (many if not most in their sixties) looks like now. I remember the hit item at the time was LSD (and I do not mean the Mormons). This year … Continue reading
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Facebook in impacting my blog
Facebook is impacting my blogging. Ever since I started to use facebook, I have notice a drop in my interest in posting to my blog. I find the facebook experience more immediate. For instance, I see the status statement as a mini blog. I just wrote on it that I was writing on my blog … Continue reading
Is legacy just another word for Ego
I have been wondering if legacy is another word for ego. What is it that we mean by legacy. Are our lives messured by what we did? What we had? Or is it what we left that goes on? Is it about how the world is different because we lived? Is that our legacy. Sometimes I … Continue reading
Christian protesters disrupt Hindu prayer in U.S. Senate
Christian extremists disrupted the first ever senate prayer lead by a Hindu. It is really sad. Below you can read this beautiful prayer that these self appointed defenders of the “faith” tried to disrupt. “Let us pray. We meditate on the transcendental Glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the Earth, … Continue reading
CEOs can live on as artists (commentary by Harriet Rubin)
Just listen to a commentary on Market Place (PBS) by my good friend Harriet Rubin which you can either read or listen to here (I suggest you listen to it). She talks about business leaders who choose to continue working and achieving in their “golden years), people like Murdoch, Buffet, and Phil Knight. Harriet’s … Continue reading
Bottled Water: A Trumph of Marketing
It is time to tap your tap ( Tap your Tap). My wife and I are trying to get off of bottled water which as you must know cost about three times as much as gas, is terrible for the environment and does nothing special for our bodies that tap water can not do (and maybe … Continue reading
Am I a facebook slut?
At first my self imposed rule was that I would only accept invitations from people that I really knew. Then I started viewing there lists of friends and saw other people that I knew but had not invited me. So I started inviting them to become my friends. Recently, I found myself accepting an invitation … Continue reading
Fire for Sucess
My wife keeps asking me to share some of my business management experience. Frankly, I never think of myself as a manager although I have managed people most of my life and I actually did a pretty good job at it if one looks at the results. So here goes: I have been advising a young … Continue reading
Happy Y-Chromosome Day
I just meet with my father, my two sons and my three grandsons (seven copies of the same Y-Chromosome). I know of and other four copies (my father’s brother’s, a second cousin, a nephew and grand nephew). Of course there must be more copies but I do not know who possesses them. The copies that … Continue reading
Hey buddy can you spare a life?
I just read something extremely inspiring that I want to share. Please read the article in Newsweek about Mikkel Vestergaard. This Danish man focused his creativity on developing simple products that save lives in African on a grand scale. The article tells of the development of a LifeStraw which is a $3 gadget that lets … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 