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
A white truck drove into the bayou and that is where the facts stop and the drama begins. As police, cars, people, dogs, children, bikes gathered around the tow truck this afternoon watching a diver wearing a big yellow diving helmet going up and down to attach the strings to the white truck stories began to take shape. My neighbor returned from Terranova where he heard it was a jealous girlfriend following behind her boyfriend…
A woman drove up the other day and handed me my Yellow Pages. I wanted to hand them back to her but instead let her drive to the next house and marched over to the recycle bin and threw it in. Yellow Pages? Is she serious? Are they serious? Dead to me. The Times Picayune is thrown to my front yard Monday through Saturday and the New York Times on Sunday. I read the newspaper…
Yes dear readers, the evil twin is back, the one who sits around and harps about how things are all going to hell in a hand-basket. Surely there is a way out of my miasma, but which path to take? Is it the road untraveled, the road more familiar but still risky, is it non-action or bold action that is required, should we sell the LaLa and move to an apartment, should we, should I,…
“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.” ~Louis Sullivan The other day a group of architectural students on bikes made their way to the LaLa to admire it. Of particular note to them was the red camelback that isn’t a camelback but instead is my office tower, yes I have an office tower, where all the important things go on. Maybe that is not entirely true as very important things happen on the…