If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.After reading and re reading the first chapters of the book I finally decided to scrap the direction and start over. It feels too condescending and self absorbed and needs to be of more value to the reader. I was hoping to be [...]

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I just read the first chapter of Thomas Friedman’s new book Hot Flat and Crowded and it’s incredible. I knew this guy could write from his other works, but this time it’s off the charts. He is hitting straight to the most important issue we will face in our generation. America needs to get off [...]

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Ok. This happened really fast. It’s amazing when you have something waiting to come out of you how easy it is. I am putting this up here in its raw form. I only skimmed through it to look for typos and it will be edited many times before making it into the book but I [...]

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You see a lot of semis on I-5, but one caught my eye last week as I headed out of town on vacation.  On the back and side it said “OK Produce.” That’s it. Why would anyone name their company OK Produce? Do you want to take a bite of someone’s peach if they say [...]

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How cool would it be if we were to one day figure out how to build a fully sustainable fully off the grid home?  I know that the houses birds build are actually more sustainable than these are but Inhabitat has a fun post up today about building bird houses out of garbage.
On the flip [...]

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I’ve been trying to be more intentional these days about living with a sense of wonder. I see the trait so evident in my children and witness the joy and rapture they have with the smallest of pleasures. It’s inspiring and humbling to encounter the depth of their simple delights.
Then, yesterday, I came across [...]

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Riffing off a theme developed over the past several comments of late, I submit this book as one of the best treatments of altruism I’ve read to date, mostly because its handled with such simplicity and honesty.
But there’s more to this book than simply a message about “generosity.”
For many years, whenever I read this story, [...]

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I know its way too small to read but this page out of The Lorax is just brilliant
It says…. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, its not.”
P.S. I scanned it as a big enough file that you can use it as your desktop background. [...]

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As a rule, we try not to talk about ourselves much here on the blog. We just don’t think we are all that interesting and know that there are much better things to talk about.
I am feeling sentimental today, so I am going to break the rules a bit.
I read a book a few [...]

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I just ordered it today it looks like a good read. Wondering if anyone has read it?
I will be sure to let you know what I think when I get my hands on it.
Levi

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