Posts under ‘Musings’

This video of Fred Kent‘s talk on “placemaking” at Gel 2009 reminded me of Ted Dewan’s talk on road witches.

A pretty building is not enough.

You have to create inviting places for people to gather, and in doing so continue →


Maru never gives up entering as long as there is a box there.

We had a good laugh watching these attempts by Maru to fit his large body inside the obviously too small boxes.  Our own cats do the very same thing.

How can you not smile at the obvious futility of such a task and the look of resignation – or is it the look of pretending?   (video below) continue →

Thought I would make note of what did not go unnoticed.

For several days last week I lamented I needed two weeks out of time.  Everything would stop moving, I would catch up and everything could go again.

I figured two weeks would be just about right.

So what happens …  continue →

I  must admit I am still amazed by how quickly answers can come or manifestations can occur.  Thought I would share my latest moment of amazement.



We headed out in a hurry this afternoon to meet up with the delivery guy at the new house.  The last thing checked these days continue →

This week Oriah takes us with her on the journey of dis covering herself once again in the entry Coming Home To Myself.

These reflections touch a place of naked truth in most all of us:

What is this strange reunion,  continue →

but rarely [do organizations or people] take the pro-active steps necessary to fail quietly, and often, in private, in advance, when there’s still time to make things better

Seth Godin

This is a much better way to fail – on purpose.  When you know up front when you’re going to fail, the F word is not so scary … actually quite liberating in fact.

Seth’s list of when to fail – and not – makes a whole lotta sense.