This post is inspired by a post I read over at Slow Leadership entitled No Time To Smell The Flowers. It starts with a quote from Bertrand Russell, which I will repeat here:
Some American students took me walking in the spring through a wood on the borders of their campus; it was filled with exquisite [...]
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No Time To Smell The Flowers
Posted in musing, tagged simple pleasures on April 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Music: Sound and Silence
Posted in musing, tagged silence on April 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Two unrelated incidents happened last week. And with my personal philosophy, I sit up and pay attention if I hear the same message multiple times from different sources within a short period of time. Experience has taught me not to ignore these things, because eventually something will club me upside the head if I ignore [...]
Verbal Inflation/Awfulizing
Posted in musing, tagged verbal inflation on April 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
An article over at Slow Leadership talks about people’s tendency to exaggerate situations and emotions. The article calls it “verbal inflation”. I think most people do this, especially when their emotions are engaged, or they feel pressure in any areas of their lives. (But perhaps this pressure is self-manufactured? Another post…)
What caught my eye was [...]
Partial Attention
Posted in musing, tagged being present, mindfulness on April 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It seems to me that we are all becoming terribly distracted. I have to make a concerted effort not to multitask. And I’m not the only one who has noticed, apparently.
I am plugged in constantly. I have my phone with me almost all the time, and my PDA as well (yes, it has a wireless [...]
Choices in Working
Posted in musing, tagged working on April 7, 2006 | 1 Comment »
In an article over at Slow Leadership, excessive working is examined. People are sucked into a never-ending cycle of competing and trying to maintain their status because of a fear of unemployment. According to the way most businesses run, non-performing employees are let go. When the level of performance is notched up, the competition to [...]
Drinking water bottles
Posted in soapbox, tagged green, water on April 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This article really got me thinking. It is about the safety of the bottles that water is delivered in.
What do we really know about the safety of any container made from petrochemicals? Plastics have been around for a long time, but we don’t know for sure that they are safe. And now there is [...]
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