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Are You Going?

2009-07-10T14:21:46-04:00

LaidOffCampRVA is an unconference for unemployed, non-traditionally employed, employees and employers (including freelancers, entrepreneurs and startups) in the Richmond area who want to share ideas and learn from each other. Attendee/Sponsor-driven sessions will include: Using Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook as Lead Generation Devices, Expanding Your Professional Network, Living on an Extreme Budget, Building Your Personal Brand, Freelance Consulting 101, Starting Your Own Business and more! Other sessions will be conducted by HR and resource professionals. We’ll have companies onsite who can provide resources for the unemployed as well as some hiring. Losing your job is a unique opportunity to gain new perspective and reinvent your career. By attending Pathways to Success Richmond, you’ll be able to network, promote your marketable skills and exchange resources and expertise with others. This event exists to provide an environment for community members to help steer each other in the right direction during these trying...

Are You Living Life or Surviving It?

2009-07-03T14:55:53-04:00

When I came to 22 years ago and was thrown headfirst into a world that didn't include booze and drugs, I decided I was going to put out as much energy into learning a new way of life as I had in living life loaded. When I became disabled 11 years ago as the result of an incomplete spinal cord injury, I also became determined to live life rather than merely survive it. It didn't matter that I didn't know how to accomplish those two things. It just mattered that I do them to stay alive and mostly sane. In the years following those two decisions, I have come to understand that I didn't need to know how. The how of it all just sort of appeared as I kept to the path I had chosen for myself. Sometimes it seemed simple, sometimes it was so difficult that I could...

Beauty and Desecration by Roger Scruton, City Journal Spring 2009

2009-07-01T14:05:50-04:00

One response is to look for beauty in its other and more everyday forms—the beauty of settled streets and cheerful faces, of natural objects and genial landscapes. It is possible to throw dirt on these things, too, and it is the mark of a second-rate artist to take such a path to our attention—the via negativa of desecration. But it is also possible to return to ordinary things in the spirit of Wallace Stevens and Samuel Barber—to show that we are at home with them and that they magnify and vindicate our life. Such is the overgrown path that the early modernists once cleared for us—the via positiva of beauty. There is no reason yet to think that we must abandon it. via city-journal.org Posted via web from Krishanna's posterous

19 Presence Management Chores You COULD Do Every Day | chrisbrogan.com

2009-06-30T12:02:47-04:00

If you’re looking to establish your online presence, and build relationships, it’s not the kind of project where you show up, build your profiles, friend a few people, and call it good. It’s a lot like tending the farm. via chrisbrogan.com Posted via web from Krishanna's posterous

Truth About Writers

2009-06-24T13:39:45-04:00

From the LA Times: The Truth About Writers. Ask a writer what she values most in her creative life, and she is likely to respond, "Time to write." Not many of us have the luxury of writing full- time; we have spouses, families, day jobs. To the people closest to the writer, "writing time" may seem like so much self-indulgence: Why should we get to sit around thinking all day? Normal people don't require hour after continuous hour of solitude and silence. Normal people can be flexible. And yet, we writers tell our friends and children, there is nothing more sacrosanct, more vital to our intellectual and emotional well-being, than writing time. But we writers have a secret. We don't spend much time writing. Read the rest...