Change the World… The Poetry of Music 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 I'm just home from a university choir concert, aptly named "Waxing Poetic." Several well-trained choirs from Arizona State University prepared sacred and humorous works, performed in a sacred space, and…
Animation… Modern Magic 5 Mar 20119 Mar 2011 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke This weekend, I watched ITT Tech Tempe's graduating design students present capstone projects of architectural plans, or animation, or…
Blogging… Teachers Appear 3 Mar 20113 Mar 2011 Learn a new word and hear it everywhere. Begin a practice and support appears. As I practice breathing this year, it appears that meditation and yoga have taken over the…
Change the World… Stories from College Drop-In Steve Jobs 1 Mar 201110 Mar 2011 “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have…
Change the World… Not Without Encouragement 24 Feb 201125 Feb 2011 An Egyptian explained why he was helping donate food and medical supplies to protesting Libyans: because people can live without food, without medicine, but not without encouragement.1 Survivors fresh from…
Emergence… Gratitude List for Hard Times 16 Feb 201117 Feb 2011 The usual, taken-for-granted, like breath, life, food, roof, clothes People whose ordeals seem considerably worse Problems you used to have, which have mercifully passed away Loved ones People you enjoy…