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Leap Year 2012/Hyper-Time and Uber-Space: We’re Here!

Nancy — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:11:45 +0000

As 2012 unfolds, and as Leap Year approaches, I’ve been observing something that makes me more than a little uneasy — in fact, maybe a little queasy — and I’m wondering if anyone else has been experiencing it the same way that I have. Here’s what I’m seeing. Get ready, because it’s a mind-blower, I’m [...]

2012: Year of The Cultural Creative?

Nancy — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:29:42 +0000

This may be the year that the demographic identified by sociologists Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson as Cultural Creatives make their mark globally. If you haven’t read the book, go ahead and get it now. This demographic is global — and at the time of the book’s writing, it was estimated that 20 million [...]

Stop SOPA and PIPA

Nancy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:02:33 +0000

Today is a worldwide day of protest. Today, people who care about being able to use the Internet as a space where everyone can connect and share ideas, information and commerce, are protesting the proposed bills in Congress whose acronyms are, respectively, SOPA and PIPA (a nasty pair if ever there was one.). Here is [...]

What Everyone Can Learn From Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nancy — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:01:44 +0000

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the USA ~ and I say that’s a good thing. Our country pauses today to remember a man whose tireless work to create more justice, fairness, and the realization of human potential inspired multiple generations: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This was a man with flaws, to [...]

Completion: Things from 2011

Nancy — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:42:24 +0000

Completions. What didn’t get done last year. On the theme of Beginnings. . . which is on a lot of minds these days, as we launch (or lurch, as the case may be. . . ) into 2012, I am thinking about completions, and why having things not finished keeps you from starting new ones [...]

New Beginnings ~ What Does That Mean?

Nancy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:15:19 +0000

New beginnings. Is there any other kind? Let me think. . . old beginnings? Well, there are certainly things I’ve started and then needed to start over. Those might be in a category called “Begin Again” or “Startovers”. Not “do-overs” because for some of them, nothing much actually got done! Just started over because I [...]

My Three Words for 2012

Nancy — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:00:25 +0000

For this, I need to thank Chris Brogan — one of my real life heroes — who started the meme a few years back. I loved it then, because it made so much sense. I still love it, because it’s really helped me focus all year long on the energy I want to bring into [...]

Clean Desk = Great New Beginning

Nancy — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:58:58 +0000

This year, I wanted the feeling of “fresh”. That was the word that popped into my head when I thought about how I wanted to feel, as I began a new year. So. . . when I looked around the office, I automatically knew one thing I would need to change: there were piles of [...]

Beginnings Also Mean Endings

Nancy — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:12:25 +0000

While many people focus right now on new beginnings — and the energy of starting over or starting something new is strong in all our minds — I also notice that as one year ends and another begins, that marks an ending too. I don’t have statistics on how many people begin a new year [...]

2012: The Healing Institute?

Nancy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:46:58 +0000

The first post of 2012 isn’t the one I’d planned — but it was something I simply have to write. The Blog Challenge theme for this month is Beginnings — so, in a way, this is also about that. But more to the point I want to make today, perhaps the theme of 2012 is [...]