Posted in choices, creativity, luck, nature, religion, tagged postaday2011 on March 31, 2011 | 6 Comments »
While in Austin, I started reading the book, The Case for a Creator. My brother-in-law lent it to me after we watched the lunar eclipse together in December. Lee Strobel, the author, starts the book as a devout atheist. He speaks to scientists and researchers to examine their views on the origins of life. Though [...]
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Posted in experience, healthcare, learning, tagged postaday2011 on March 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“You can’t use a Western mind to understand Eastern philosophy. To really understand it, you have to change your mind.” ~ Dr. Nan Lu, OMD Dr. Lu used this quote to close his talk about Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium earlier this month. It reminded me of how often we try to [...]
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Posted in entrepreneurship, finance, philanthropy, tagged postaday2011 on March 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
For a number of years, I’ve written about and donated to Grameen America and Kiva. Both organization provide microloans to entrepreneurs. Kiva works in the developing world and Grameen America works right here in New York City. Given my support of both organization, I was thrilled to get the information below in a recent email [...]
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Posted in art, health, healthcare, music, tagged postaday2011 on March 28, 2011 | 6 Comments »
On Saturday morning, I started a busy week of yoga teaching at New York Methodist Hospital. I went to the Geriatric Psychology Unit. Because it is an acute care facility, I always have a different group of patients whom I work with in a small group class. Their cognitive and physical abilities vary widely. This [...]
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Posted in art, books, change, choices, imagination, tagged postaday2011 on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“Imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.” ~ Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty I just started reading Steve Martin’s latest novel, An Object of Beauty. From the first 10 pages, I was hooked, as I always am with his writing. Lines like the one above are common place in his writing and have [...]
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Posted in career, tagged postaday2011 on March 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I read a lot of career blogs. Managing a career, changing jobs with grace, and interviewing tips are all common topics. Most of the career advice I read is personal advice for how people can manage their own careers. This post is different – it isn’t necessarily for job seekers. This post is for people [...]
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Posted in art, SXSW, tagged postaday2011 on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite SXSW features is Knitta, Please, a now-large scale project begun by Magda Sayeg in her then-home of Houston. Everywhere she looked it was gray, and as a dedicated artist she wanted to infuse her environment with handmade color. She didn’t have paint. She had something better – yarn. I first learned [...]
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Posted in change, environment, evolution, nature, politics, tagged postaday2011 on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“We always talk about working together… perhaps crisis can give birth to new evolution.” ~ Yuka Saionji In the past few weeks I have been bowled over by the amount of crisis in the world. I almost don’t bother to open the email alerts I get of what’s coming up on the nightly news. I [...]
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Posted in career, choices, decision-making, health, technology, writing, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on March 23, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” ~ George Sheehan I read this quote earlier in the week on a daily email I receive from Tiny Buddha. MJ, one of the wonderful readers of this blog, recommended it to me a [...]
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Posted in blogging, women, writing, tagged postaday2011 on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been following the site Jane Nation and its associated Twitter feed for a few months. I found Jane through a Google search for a project I’m conducting at work. I was looking around for online communities that focus on women at various life stages, and Jane surfaced high on the ladder of my search. [...]
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