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Amazing news on super-short notice!
In this time of unstable economies and growing climate impacts, I’m facilitating a workshop this coming weekend called “Resilient People: Building strength in a time of economic and climate change.”
“Resilient People: Building strength in a time of economic and climate change” is a workshop for our time. Facilitated by Resilient People co-founder [...]

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In Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the posthumously published book of lectures Italo Calvino almost lived long enough to deliver in 1985-86 (as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard), Calvino defined exactitude as:
(1) a well-defined and well-calculated plan for the work in question;
(2) an evocation of clear, incisive, memorable visual images; [...]

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Radio silence on a blog could mean a blogger is on vacation, has to meet deadlines for paying clients, is burning out and has no ideas, or is facing a difficult circumstance of some kind.
In my case, it's the latter: A dear friend had a heart attack, which prompted his friends and family to shift [...]

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Magnolias across the street, originally uploaded by Sanjay Khanna.
"The branches bend in the wind and rise up again, the flowers grow and fall, the forest swells like a [...]

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Could adopting a calmer, more positive tone in the face of massive change contribute to a social and political dialog that isn’t overly pressurized or stressful, yet provides the motivation we need to do our very best and make the difference we can with the resources we have?
Towards the end of January of this year, [...]

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