For years, I used this mantra LEARN CHANGE GROW as a guide for innovative change as I believed it was a simple reminder of a process and a way of making progress both as individuals and as organizations. The goal was evolving into a new and different way of being in the world, something familiar
Years ago a friend of mine had a small sailboat on Martha’s Vineyard, a 19’ O’Day Mariner and I had the benefit and pleasure of sailing it from the mooring in Edgartown Harbor all around the harbor and beyond when the sea was calm. One day a storm filled the boat with water and it
This is not quite like the Jerry Seinfeld piece on Raisinets but it’s close and may have inspired me to write this expose. Jerry wondered why it had taken 80 years to put chocolate on raisins. As I was contemplating the cereal aisle at the grocery store, I looked at how many choices we’re exposed
Luis Hernandez looked at a broken gate he had fixed for us and said, “There, now it’s more better.” While that may seem redundant or grammatically incorrect, I grew to like “more better” as I believed it summed up what we need on many fronts, “more better.” I am indebted to Luis for this insight
My maternal grandfather was a descendant of the gatherers. He was a forager in the woods, especially in late Summer and early Fall for berries, nuts, mushrooms and paw paws. He also gathered many other things including “pieces of string too short to save.” He would put them in a shoe box with that written
Two friends in British Columbia and I, in Arizona, share information, links to some amazing, creative projects, and some whimsy in the form of poems and stories. Not long ago, one of them posted the following 3 lines of poetry: “Oh, to read what he has read regarding red…o” I pondered the words
