Tin was Skyping with Tete yesterday and he pulled out his Trumpet and played then sang When the Saints Go Marching In, then he sang It’s a Wonderful World. This morning, he recited all of his Croatian nursery rhymes perfectly.
We bought Tin a photography book of New Orleans Jazz greats because he loves looking at photographs of people playing instruments. He loves to name all the instruments. He sits on the couch and reads this book as if it were the holy word. Houston, I think we have a musician on our hands. A friend of ours came by to fix the toilet handle in Tin’s bathroom, she also teaches Tin how to drum.…
I was speaking with my neighbor who told me they just lost $80,000 in business as three clients stopped their projects – why? The economy, stupid. She said she went to the bank to figure out what to do and someone had told her to get a line of credit. She said all small business are getting lines of credit to keep them afloat. Just what America needs – more credit.
I am now managing multiple personalities and I’m not the only one. Remember when you were one face to your family, one to your friends, one to your employers? And a lot of people were very concerned when those worlds met and overlapped. I won’t use the now ubiquitous term REAL but I will say that having never had very firm boundaries between these worlds has enabled me to move into this new world we…
September 23, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) It’s a funny thing about life: No matter how much you try to prepare, plan and push things in a certain direction, you never really know where you’ll end up until you’re there. This uncertainty could disorient a lesser person, but today, you’re ready to embrace the fact that life is full of unexpected detours. You’ll surely get somewhere today, but it probably won’t be where you expected to land…
I’ve had such wonderful relationships across all sectors of my life that I am going to take a moment to say I’m grateful. I’m grateful to have known so many warm, smart, talented, and gracious people in my life. That is why I love the work I do because I get to build on those relationships. I remember when I started working at my company we were all a bunch of people that we said…
The woman across the bayou who is 95 years old said that in the Great Depression, five members of her family lost their job in one week. In one week, I have spoken to sources and clients, five of them, who have lost their job. Don’t underestimate that right now in our lives we are undergoing severe hardship. What most of us are going through on the inside is amplified on the outside daily, minute…
I lost my voice mid morning – in my business that is not a good thing. I have a horrible cold, brought to me by the little germ buses that populate Tin’s nursery – why I oughta. But the good news is that I found my voice too – my inner voice. I had a long talk with a dear confidant of mine, a very uplifting talk with my new life coach, and then another…
Remember the Corporate Spring and CEO Spring that Marc Benioff was talking about at his Dreamforce conference? Well I say there is a Culture Spring going on. The wheels are turning for everybody – not just me – it’s not like I’m the one who made a lot of foolish decisions that has led me to this point – we were all headed down the wrong path, as a nation, as a culture, and now…
Marc Benioff called for a Corporate Spring at his Dreamforce conference in San Francisco not a few weeks ago and it seemed this Saturday 1000 protestors gathered on Wall Street hoping to get it going. Big Media tried to quiet down the protest such as Yahoo blocking emails calling for people to gather. Corporate Spring CEO Spring Big Media Spring