It came to me finally this weekend. I have not been able to more completely describe my encore career to those who ask. While listening to a TED Talk, I realized that friends and colleagues want an answer about what I will be doing, as in what will my job be. But, I have seen…
These past two weeks I have been posting on reconciliation and greed. As I re-read them, I am struck by several editorial items, but mainly these: * My writing style gets too close to sermonizing at times. * There are several points where I cannot find myself in what I have written. * I am…
Profit-based corporations exist to make money for shareholders and to protect individual shareholders from some excessive risk. This sounds and is reasonable at face value. Profit goes to investors. It has a certain simple, elegant logic to it. Those of us who have worked in business at various levels know that profit-based corporations themselves have…
The term greed has historically been used to describe and criticize those who seek excessive material wealth. The word summons images of misers, dusty ballrooms, faded glory, and chests of ill-gotten gold. It brings to mind Botoxed men with neon tans, pool-side with a trophy wife. But these pictures of faded or tacky opulence are…
Sculptures of Justice are historically of a blindfolded female holding scales. We say she is blind. The intent is to show an impartiality in judgment. We want to assert that Justice makes decisions independent of the particulars of a person’s circumstances, appearance, background, or demographics. Greed wants to assert the same thing. Greed spins a…
Greed has generally been considered an excessive desire to get and keep more than one needs. The degree of excess appears to be related to the inability to distinguish wants from needs. On one hand greed may seek to deprive others from basic survival, comfort, and opportunity; conspiracies of world domination come to mind. On the…
Fashion Shopping Petty arguments Jealousy Phone screens Tablet screens Laptop screens Computer screens TV screens Big screens Tattoos Affairs Piercings Real Housewives Say Yes to the Dress Downton Abbey Comic books Celebrities Freeways Helicopters Tinted windshields Sunglasses indoors What would you add to this list of ways to avoid facing the uneasy truce we have…
How do we know that engaging in the process of reconciliation is in order? Why devote the time and energy required in a potentially uncomfortable process to resolve the warring factions within me when I am not assured of a direct, measurable outcome? What difference will it make? There are scores of reasons to suggest…
There are disparities between warring factions in my thoughts and feelings all the time. For most of them, I find an uneasy peace of sorts. I get to a position that seems right to me and stick with it. Since this week I am writing about the importance of reconciliation in developing community, I thought…
Reconciliation WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil’d world: … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I…
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