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What is my purpose? Good question. First, to be the best human being I know how to be. Second, to make a difference somehow–to leave the world a better place, if only fractionally, for having been here. I am passionate about human rights, about animal rights, about the spaceship Earth, and my Gods and Goddesses, about the very classroom each…[Read more]

Hi Mark,

I generally agree that anger isn’t usually the best emotion to use or actualize. Especially for me — my anger usually feels more destructive (internally and/or externally) that really useful.

But my opinion has shifted just a little bit when I read Terry Prachett’s “The Wee Free Men” and there’s a scene where the main character…[Read more]

I grew up in a, relatively, small town and never felt that I fit in with the majority of residents; so, I can relate.

I’ve run software development teams that were, literally, around the world. I had teams, working on different portions of the same product, in Washington state, New Hampshire, Denmark, UK, Australia, and India — scheduling an…[Read more]

hmmm…it says there are two posts, but I see only one. I posted a correction:

3) Anger creates blind spots that filter out any evidence or argument that DElegitimizes the angers.

One correction: 3) Anger creates blind spots that filter out any evidence or argument that DElegitimizes the angers.

Hey, everyone! Great to meet you all. Let us know what we can do to support you!

Wow, what an eclectic group. I’m bummed I missed this cruise! It’s on my radar now, so maybe I’ll meet a few of you on the high seas next year.

I’m a published non-fiction author, published writer in national and local media, contributor to a hodgepodge of websites and blogs, published poet and producer.

I’ve been a part of Steven’s tribe for…[Read more]

Think and Grow Rich, as well as Napoleon Hill’s controverisal and less well known follow up to his first book, Outwitting the Devil, continue to have a direct impact on my life because they opened my perspective to principles that can be applied to avoid the pitfulls that often hold us back from being a co-creator of our reality and give a clear,…[Read more]

Roku does Youtube; You’re in my living room!

It has been very scary trying to continue being with the truth of “I. don’t. know.” I have tried to involve myself in externals, being support for others in various ways when they would accept it gave me *some* sense of self-worth, but I never have been able to come up with a satisfactory answer to “Why am I? / Why do I continue?”. Meanwhile, I…[Read more]

Meaningful Action x (etc…,) is growing in my life. I am forever grateful to you for being the example and available when I most needed you.

Given my own ideas around the definitions of the two, I’d think liberals would be more open to new ideas… to a point. For myself, if I were to feel somehow limited by the concept (don’t take away *my* “sacred absolutes”!), I would reject those portions out of hand.

Don’t post the story. Post a paragraph describing the story and its emotional/philosophical intent. We’ll be in touch after we make a selection. Tell us what emotion you were trying to convey, the communication. Or the feeling you were experiencing when you wrote it.

Thanks!
Steve

The great thing about visualizing a machine is that it helps us detach from notions of spoiling our Muses with special treats: a deserted cabin, a five-hour writing block, exactly 76 degrees.