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Category Archives: Prose
Last Words; Sabbath Thoughts (Oliver Sacks)
“And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Quotations
Tagged Final Words, Last words of Oliver Sacks, Oliver Sacks, Sabbath, Sabbath memories
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Winterish
Winterish After last night’s blizzard, the cement Chinese scholar—who meditates on a makeshift pedestal in our garden’s southwest corner—has suffered a storm-change into something rich and strange. Atop his modest Buddhist curls, he now wears a proud bishop’s miter of … Continue reading
Posted in Cahier, Cahier/Journal, My Poetry, Poetry, Prose
Tagged Buddhist, cats, chickadee, collective afterlife, Eskimo, garden in winter, Magnolia grandiflora, Malcolm Farley's poem, Malcolm Farley's poetry, Malcolm Farley's prose, nature poems, nature poetry, observations of nature, prose poems, snow, squirrels, winter garden, winter journey, winter poems
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Social Change Diary: Novel Communications Strategies for a Better World
Social Change Diary: Novel Communications Strategies for a Better World On Tuesday, February 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM at the Ford Foundation, I attended a thought-provoking seminar led by MacArthur Foundation “genius” grantee, TED-Talk participant, and Harvard University Professor of … Continue reading
Posted in Cahier/Journal, Musings, Opinion, Prose
Tagged Communications Network, fighting global warming, Ford Foundation, Harvard Professor of Economics, improving healthcare, Macarthur Foundation genius, mobile robot alarm clock, pill bottle with smart cap, poverty alleviation, programmable thermostats, Sendhil Mullainathan, social change, social change marketing, Spitfire Strategies, Ted-Talk participant
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Quote of the Day—On the Real Merchandise of The Information Economy
On the Real Merchandise of The Information Economy “How thoroughly and how radically Google has already transformed the information economy has not been well understood. The merchandise of the information economy is not information; it is attention. These commodities have … Continue reading
How Our Deficit Grew So Big & Why The Rich Owe Taxes, Too
1) How Our Deficit Grew So Big Taxes cuts for the rich, two wars (paid for by selling U.S. debt to China and others), and a drug-company boondoggle for a bloated Medicare prescription drug plan—all voted for by a Republican … Continue reading
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