What is the most meaningful work you have ever done? How happy did it make you — both then, and now, thinking back on it? Was it the work you had originally planned on doing? New York Times writer David Brooks points out in his excellent editorial today that some bad advice is being given [...]
Entries Tagged as 'work'
The Best Advice For College Graduates
May 31st, 2011 · 2 Comments · global warming and climate change, work
Tags: David Brooks·service
The Joy Of Building Instead Of Destroying
April 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · work
While the news is filled with the destructive war in Libya, a highly constructive event just occurred in Ethiopia. A Habitat For Humanity trip led
The Holy Grail of the Diamond-Cut Life
February 18th, 2011 · No Comments · nature, work
I had a marguerita last night with my fish tacos at the Hawthorne Fish House. I tossed the drink down fast, in the tiny wedge of time available to me between fighting the traffic home from a meeting in Salem (I won an award — happy surprise!) , and the start of the writing critique [...]
Tags: Bill Gracie·haiku·Holy Grail·hyperactivity·margueritas·stress
Landing On Our Feet: What Does It Take?
February 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · work
How versatile and resilient are you? What would you do if, like Joe Logan here in Portland, and for that matter, President Mubarrak in Egypt, your world changed, and your livelihood disappeared? Would you resist endlessly, hanging on irrationally like Mubarrak is doing to his now discredited leadership, creating reverberations of suffering and danger for [...]
Is Zhang Yue A Diamond-Cut Businessman?
December 8th, 2010 · No Comments · energy, global warming and climate change, simplicity, sustainability, work
I learned awhile back that China passed the U.S. as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases.* What’s more interesting, though, is that Zhang Yue, one of China’s wealthiest businesspeople, has been slashing his own emissions as he conducts his business.
Tags: absorption chillers·Broad Air Conditioning·Climate Solutions·energy consumption·Zhang Yue
A Different Take On “We Deserve It”
June 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · community, spirituality & religion, work
I’m happy, even ecstatic in our new home, on the east flank of Mount Tabor here in Portland, Oregon. Our house is newer than our former home (one week old versus 70 years old) and larger (2250 square feet versus 1290 sf). And most importantly to me, it has an open floor plan that promotes [...]
This And That, Approaching Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, work
I’ve added a delicious new book by Amy Minato to Books I Love, one that would be great to read over the Thanksgiving weekend . . . . at work, the rideshare proposal I’ve been working on for months with many others is finally reaching closure, thank the Goddess . . . . . Green [...]
Being Fed By The Forest
November 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, nature, work
Blythe traipsed in late yesterday afternoon to our writing group’s opening session here at Opal Creek, living up to her name, towing with her a forest treasure that startled me into a double take. I’d never seen a cauliflower mushroom before. It was huger than a Halloween pumpkin but formed of air and a fawn-colored, [...]
About Furloughs And Household Finances
October 25th, 2009 · No Comments · community, lifestyle, money, work
Would you like a day off from work? Say, a Friday all to yourself, in which to do anything you’d like? The only catch is that you’re not paid for your day off. As an employee of the state of Oregon, I had my first furlough day last week. Like most of my coworkers, I [...]
Dancing Around The Mad King
October 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · work
Long ago in a state far away I worked in a nonprofit for an executive director, Sam, whom we will also call the Mad King. He had humor and energy and that prized quality among bosses of being not at all a nitpicker or micromanager. (I can picture half my readers saying at this point: [...]
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