Posts Tagged ‘community’

Remember my friend Mike who said “but all I do is run“?  He’s back from a successful marathon in Prague with Team Diabetes and already preparing for his next marathon.

Mike’s other latest news is the creation of his online network focused on diabetes awareness in rural areas – but anyone touched by diabetes is welcome to come and connect with others.

You can read more about Mike’s journey and help build a community of inspiration, information, compassion and hope at RuralDiabetesAwareness.com

Before seeing this presentation from Gel I hadn’t put much thought into the space between houses.  Ted Dewan‘s activist art he calls road witches continue →

I remember talking with Mike Kowalchuk at the store shortly after he’d been told he had Type 2 diabetes.  His diagnosis came as a bit of a shock and adjusting to his “new life” sounded all too similar to those of our friends living with diabetes.

Yet being a runner, and the type of guy Mike is, he took it all in stride.  Literally.  continue →

In this TED Talk,  Renny Gleeson restates my desire for No More Crackers Please and rethinks where we apply our creativity and ingenuity.   In under four minutes he powerfully summarizes this direction for future endeavors:  continue →

I consider myself blessed that the worst of the worst day in my life would feel like paradise for many women around the world.

We hear about the advances being made in the reconstruction of war-torn countries like Afghanistan … roads and dams are being re-built, girls attending school, people feel safer to move about, access to medical care.  Yet the world for women, especial in rural areas, remains somewhat unchanged.  continue →

What happened to Willie Smits sounds a lot like what happened to Greg Mortenson.  Both men set out to fulfill a single intention and they soon discovered they were the catalyst of far reaching changes.
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