United Nations Conference on Climate Change

This week our world leaders will come together to talk about climate change. They will talk about the policy and the science and make agreements they alone cannot keep. They will provide sound reasoning and a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world.

But who has time for these grand ideas in our lives? Climate change is hard to grasp in general and especially when we are occupied with the tasks of everyday life like raising children, fighting traffic, and working. The destruction of the planet won’t happen for at least another ten years so we can think about it later, after getting the kids to school, Continue reading “United Nations Conference on Climate Change”

Meaning

Being an artist is simply the ability to turn something on its ear. To see something in a new light, giving it renewed life. Have you have ever looked at an object seeing it in a different way creating a new experience? Continue reading “Meaning”

“Lean In” and Carry a Big Purse

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Sheryl Sandburg’s book Lean In and the entire Lean In movement has helped shine light on the disparities between men and women in the working world and the contribution women add to that disparity. I agree with her and I have had to examine my own career in light of this. Research from her book reveals that one of the reasons men are promoted and get higher paying jobs is because Continue reading ““Lean In” and Carry a Big Purse”

Hate is not the same as being very, very angry for a very, very long time

Hate is not the same as being very, very, angry for a very, very long time. Hate needs to destroy or fundamentally alter the object if its attention and therefore is not sustainable. Once something is destroyed or fundamentally altered, a new or different object must be found to hate. There is no altering hate, its only mission is to destroy. Hate is something you must just walk away from when you find it. Continue reading “Hate is not the same as being very, very angry for a very, very long time”

The Power of Innovation

 

 

Get a cup of coffee or tea and sit down for a quiet moment and watch this interview with Wynton Marsalis on the power of innovation. It is about Leveraging the Power of Innovation and he uses his experience of jazz and New Orleans to give us a feeling of how we can work together to innovate and really how all innovation requires that we come together. Continue reading “The Power of Innovation”

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