Archive for July, 2009
Full, Empty & the First Lady
A few weeks ago, I followed an email link to this speech by Michelle Obama, delivered on June 16th in Washington DC. It does a wonderful job at describing the spirit, orientation, and aim of what we at SCOPE care about and work to practice locally.
(Follow link and scroll down to the bold text.)
http://www.abcdinstitute.org/faculty/obama/
This part [...]
Running in the Grocery Store
I’ve got a confession: sometimes I see someone I know in the grocery store and I purposefully head down another aisle. Not because I don’t like that person, but because I simply don’t feel like making that nice smalltalk that is required of grocery store interactions.
At a networking event, I would never do that. In [...]
Blue & his Bread
The other night, I stopped on a street near my house in Gillespie Park to take some photos. The light was in that beautiful shift between evening and nighttime and I just couldn’t resist. Walking back to my car, I noticed a man sitting out in his yard. I said to myself, “If he looks [...]
Are we thinking “out-of-the-box”?
How many times a week do you hear someone refer to “out-of-the-box” thinking? It is not unusual for me to hear or say these words very frequently. This may be another of those phrases that has lost its meaning from overuse. At a meeting this week I noticed that this phrase may be familiar but [...]