As a noun, DESIGN has two meanings: either a plan, aim, intention, goal, or purpose; or a concept, drawing, shape, sketch, or blueprint – even the entire finished product. As a verb, it also has two meanings; either to scheme, plan, devise, or intend; or to invent, create, fabricate, or BUILD. We can get
Three stages or phases as a way of being and doing and growing. First, exploring and discovering what we care about most and why…. Passion Second, putting that passion into intentional design and actions, what some might call a value proposition as it includes vision, mission and values…Purpose 1 – Who are
Our kitchen floor at the 2-story house on Wayne Avenue was a shining reflection of cleanliness. My mother held cleanliness next to godliness in her list of values. When she visited us in later years she would voluntarily started cleaning out the refrigerator. She would bring a green specimen of something growing on the back
(Spoiler alert: This post is compiled from previous, similar ones written for this celebration) Wednesday, June 21, marks this annual event known as Solstice, Summer in the northern hemisphere, Winter in the southern hemisphere. Literally, it’s the moment when the “sun stands still” before it starts back in the other direction and for those
A 3-year-old, Max, asks his grandfather, “Why are you an old man?” Countless children offer keen observations, ask surprising, thoughtful, penetrating questions, filled with curiosity and wonder. As parents, grandparents, teachers and friends, we would do well to seize that opportunity to have a conversation and explore some of the big why’s of life, as
