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Well said

“The role of the social architect recognizes that acting on what matters for one person will happen in concert with those around that person. Individual effort will not be enough. If we do not encourage others to find their own meaning, their own voice, we will never be able to sustain our own.”

—Peter Block, from The Answer to
How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
September 11, 2008 | Category: Change, Culture, Engaged people, Ideas, Miscellaneous, Non sequiturs, Nonfiction, Quotations | Leave a comment

A thought-provoking video from TED.com

I watch the videos (or listen to audio podcasts) from TED.com both as a source of inspiration for writing…and for life. I found this one so captivating that I wanted to share it with my blog readers.

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who suffered a major stroke. In this video, she talks about what she experienced.

March 15, 2008 | Category: Engaged people, Miscellaneous, Nonfiction | Leave a comment

The Art of Living

I ran across the following quotation in May, and it’s been on my mind ever since. How much work (or play) will it take to live up to this standard?

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”

—James Michener
August 20, 2007 | Category: Engaged people, Life, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Quotations | Leave a comment

A Nonbinding Resolution Establishing the Blog

WHEREAS: I have been meeting many interesting, interested people who’ve expressed curiosity about my ideas and, specifically, my writing,

And WHEREAS: I enjoy spending lots of time talking to those curious people, but there are only so many hours in the day,

And WHEREAS: I often find myself repeating the same stories and observations over and over again to different people,

And WHEREAS: Spoken conversations, though delightful, usually produce no permanent record that can be shared with others,

And WHEREAS: I want to cultivate the habit of producing publishable written material on a regular basis,

And WHEREAS: I have ready access to the medium of the Internet and to the tools of blogging,

THEREFORE be it resolved: That I will establish a weblog and post material to it on a regular basis; that I will make its existence known to such people as might be interested in reading it; and that I will be curious to see where it leads.

© 2007 Edward F. Gumnick

March 7, 2007 | Category: Curiosity, Engaged people, Writing | Leave a comment