From the monthly archives:

November 2008

But we regress…

November 22, 2008

The holidays are upon us.  Yikes!  We are traveling to visit with family and friends in anticipation of Thanksgiving.
A quick reflection on a comment I can’t reference other than I heard a psychologist make it:  “when we gather with family, emotionally we regress at least ten years.”
Does that ring true?  Have you been is situations [...]

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Brilliance…

November 21, 2008

An interesting discussion was generated on twitter around the word “brilliant” last night by Liz Strauss which she encapsulated and posted on her blog this morning.  Reflecting further, I commented there and find myself continuing to ponder something that’s been kicking around in the back of my head.
When Jung writes of the transcendant function he [...]

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Getting Hooked

November 20, 2008

@CCSeed:
I spent yesterday focused on branding and taglines while attending a seminar at the Support Center for Non-Profit Management in NYC (the tweet stream with some useful notes is here).  A lot of information got served up and I had more than enough to chew upon for the rest of the day. But the most [...]

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Bug Vacuum?

November 19, 2008

The Sand Box
So the school hosted a book fair this week and my son came home with a bug vacuum.  At first I was conflicted and the same held true for my wife.  But it provided a moment for us to let go of the control so that even at six and a half years [...]

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Negitive Capability

November 18, 2008

AziMuth
Last week in a post on practice, I sketched the simple pragmatist approach to action which I found scattered through the notebooks of the poet Charles Olson: thought, belief, action.  In Olson’s poetics, the poem flowed onto the page from a place of certainty, but certainty defined with one caveat: negative capability.
In a letter written [...]

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Right Message, Wrong Time

November 17, 2008

Dreams Unfolding
I’m attending a meeting at work when a female relative arrives unexpectedly, very enthusiastic about the opportunity to sell a line of goods.
Amplification:
This dream emerging from a more personal level then the previous ones, pointing to a potential mistake in my goals for implementing social media at work.  While I can identify with [...]

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Storytelling in Social Media

November 16, 2008

@CCSeed
Storytelling as a best practice: it’s an intriguing topic, especially as it relates to social media.  There’s tremendous buzz around storytelling in social marketing, especially in the non-profit sector.  As Andy Goodman notes, “the viral marketing of ideas depends first and foremost on stories.”  It’s what I have been wrestling with since entering the social [...]

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Inner Companion

November 15, 2008

AziMuth
In “Man and His Symbols” Carl Jung and Marie Louise von Franz share the spiritual approach of the Naskapi who lived in isolated family groups across the Labrador peninsula.
In his lifelong solitude the Naskapi hunter has to rely on his own inner voices and unconscious revelations; he has no religious teachers who tell him what [...]

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Funeral for Grand Figures

November 15, 2008

Dreams Unfolding
In a military helicopter and handed an automatic rifle , then told to sit as I ride in a side doorway.  As we lift off I’m trying to figure out where and how to place my finger on the trigger.  We fly low down an avenue, needing at times to rise suddenly to avoid [...]

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Firing Intention

November 13, 2008

AziMuth
The most valuable unpublished work I’ve ever come across was a short essay by the poet Charles Olson titled “Notes on Reading Frobenius.”  I was honored to receive permission to publish it about eight years ago in a small literary zine I had created, also titled AziMuth.  It was an honor because the accomplishment of [...]

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