Originally posted on April 1, 2008 Foster, R. (1981). Freedom of Simplicity. San Francisco: Harper. Freedom of Simplicity was published in 1981, and, I have read it, now, three times. It is Foster who, twenty some years ago, began me in the transition to simplicity and it is simplicity that continues to be a tension […]
I get a bit teased for liking “syrupy” movies. No doubt, many touch my heart. Last week I watched Sound of Music (for at least the 30th time) and tonight I watched Peter O’Toole and Sopia Loren in the move, “The Man of La Mancha.” I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!! Man of La Mancha is about […]
Futurists are talking about 2009 as a time for more change than people are bargaining for. Faith Popcorn writes about the “socio-quake” that is taking place resulting in the toppling of icons and changes about the way we believe and act. Part of me really hopes that she is right. The past twenty years have […]
I watched Wall-E with the grandchildren tonight. I really hadn’t wanted to see the movie (still not sure that it’s all that good) but I was struck by somethings in the film. Humans had become FAT and COMPLACENT, willing to let others do things for them. HUMANS had abandoned the earth rather than deal with […]
Marian Salzman is a futurist who offers a blog site called Intelligent Dialgue. Salzman is acclaimed as a trendwatcher and is one to be watched herself if one wants to be looking ahead. In her blog for December 24 called “Reboot: the word of the hour, day, week, and for 2009” Salzman offers this thought: […]