This is not a clever headline (because it’s about something that matters to me): Education in America

We are not doing well, America. We’re too busy arguing about whatever dichotomy’s deacons/esses of media and spin are shoveling. This is not good.  Because I genuinely hold this as a valid assertion, I must also outline my thinking so I can determine which actions will best support what I think in the world. After all, that’s my part of this social contract and I’m all about doing my part…. The reason education is so incredibly important for ALL of us is that it is so critically important to ALL of us; as a community, a culture, a conviction, and […]

The dangers of our dichotomies

I have come to an awareness that, perhaps for the first time in our country’s history, the United States has fallen to being aggressively indisposed toward its constituency. Be it by the bludgeoning of over-informing, the divisiveness of misinforming, or the profound distraction of both in the national and community commons, a somewhat corporatist, political, and  theocratic “community of common interests” now exists.  This “community of common interests” has an understanding of itself as an agent in the world; it understands and makes use of information warfare to acquire and hold hostage the intellectual promise, potential, and prowess of “we, […]

The United States of America needs another, better model of management

There should be a program that balances Federal funds AGAINST state incentives in such a way as to assure an evenly spread industrial and commercial network in our United States of America. Companies and industries that significantly impact the gross national product should NOT be permitted to jeopardize the national economic health via full blown autonomy. The idea that the companies of a nation are any less accountable for the health of the gross national product along with our general, economic health as a nation beyond coddling up to the states that house them, the government that legislates on their behalf (for shared […]

Pure Seeds, for life.

I am utterly certain that someone much more famous than I have said these things before me; but since I’m not “educated” enough to know of them, and I came to these on my own, with no help but my own experiences, I claim them as mine. With that disclaimer/preface, here is the tightest packing of “Pure Seed” concepts for getting things done that I know. My hope is it will be helpful to you. But at the very least, perhaps it will pique your curiosity enough to find the previously mentioned famous folk and get an educated take on […]

Global Needs

They say there is no truly original thought remaining to humankind; that all advance, all innovation, and all potential for creativity is reduced now to the derivative, the mash-up, the remix, reboot, and of course “re-imagining”. I cannot challenge the assertion, how to manage it when proof of a negative state is beyond us? But I can suggest the need for a shift in perspective on the matter. We do not, I think, need new thought so much as we need to get working on a consensus for coexistence as a species of diverse genetic traits, competing for potentially scarce […]

Autotelic

Seed / Egg / Life I am very much that autotelic one and it is as well that I am; my interests and fascinations are odd and blended, my delights seem woefully unattractive to others. They are enjoyed, regardless (though this seems usually to engender negative response in the world around me). The glorious exception to this, what I have known as “life’s rule”, is the sweet, soft, shining light that is my husband, J. This is, to the best of my ability to consider it, perfection in this life. So much so that all the swirling detritus and dogma […]