Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures [...]
Taken from this article about the Gaza-Egypt border debacle, this picture struck me as a sad allegory not just to the challenges of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and of building of a Palestinian State, but further to so many of the challenges faced today in the Middle East, from the peace process, to the struggle [...]
A reader recently posted some very angry remarks relishing Armageddon for Israel and/from the Palestinian people…and talking about a rampage and killing and raping of children… Oddly enough (or perhaps not surprisingly) his reaction was in response to an uplifting post about Barak Obama’s Yes We Can speech and song. This is the same person [...]
Take a look at this message from Stefan Stagmeister, the famous designer who created the OneVoice symbol …the entire wall reads "Self-Confidence Produces Results." Can you guess how this was written? Here is a hint. Click on the "MORE" Tab to the right here to take a look… Bananas – some ripe, some green…their shades [...]
I am extracting this great innovation from an email I got from Ari Cartun: Look closely and guess what they could be… Are they pens with cameras? Any wild guesses? No clue yet? You’ve just looked into the future… yep that’s right! You’ve just seen something that will replace your PC in the near future. [...]
I often carry around old newspapers whose op-eds or articles I hadn’t read. Some times I may be dumb enough to bring one copy across half a dozen trips before getting to it, only to realize I was carrying dead weight. Not just now, when I caught up with last week’s op-ed page from the [...]
I just got the email below from one of those annoying chain letter emails that people forward to each other. But I read it and it made me shed a tear. So instead of forwarding it, I am posting it here. I have no idea if this is a true story, but it really does [...]
"I discovered that a person cannot live a full life under the shadow of bitterness." – Benjamin Zander’s father. As reported by Benjamin at a closing session in Davos, his father was in Auschwitz and then interned in a refugee camp in England, followed by many setbacks, yet always had a positive disposition. Two [...]
I am taking a minute to blog about the loss of Heath Ledger, not because he was a famous actor that so many of us found exceptionally talented, but because the one time I randomly met him at the lobby of a hotel in NYC I was struck by how sweet, warm, playful, funny, and [...]