For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild animals may eat.
- Exodus 23:10-11
There’s a novel concept or is it. I think there is [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Looking busy
Posted in humor, tagged Workplace on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Words and worlds apart
Posted in Christianity, history, mystic, recreation, soldiers, tagged contemplative, Franciscan, kindness, Politics on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Just last night I walked past the village library and I thought to myself what an anachronism a public library has really become. I actually remember using card catalogs and microfilm.
Attitude of Gratitude
Posted in AA, Peace, gratitude, tagged contemplative, kindness, Philosophy, Spirituality, Workplace on May 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve long heard it said that an attitude of gratitude is one of the secrets of a healthy, happy life. This post at Lifehack.org really sums that up and I thought it was worth sharing.
In today’s hectic and competitive world, there is so much negativity floating around that it is easy to get taken in [...]
Open or closed?
Posted in Dell, Education, Linux, Ubuntu, Web 2.0, wikis, tagged Iraq, Open Source, Philosophy, Workplace on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mine commented on a post I had about Ubuntu and Dell and in that he said that Linux is like the wiki concept. Maybe the wiki concept is more like Linux and open source. Regardless of how one looks at either, open source is an new model of production which favors the [...]
Weeds
Posted in Peace, Satyagraha, blogs, gratitude, humor, mystic, nature, tagged contemplative, kindness, Philosophy, Spirituality on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
ShipwreckedinSouth Carolina has a great story this morning and I want to give it some more coverage. James is a regular reader of this blog and I read his posts as well. After reading this story I’m convinced more than ever that it is the weeds in my life that give it the most [...]
