The Truth

I love Twitter. The creative people who use it to tempt us away from our very important work to read insights and interpretations from their view of the world. I read some of this stuff and think – WOW – how beautifully written. How truthful. Some of it stabs deep into my heart. Some of [...]

Continue reading about The Truth »

When I was younger, if I did hard, physical work for a few days, I became stronger. Now, I seem to just get tired. I’ve had two weeks (well, really just eight days – 4 days/week) to build up those muscles and gain stamina. The muscles are sore – does that mean they’re getting stronger? [...]

Continue reading about Recuperation Day »

Loan as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur in the developing world – you can read about each person and their business idea. Communicate with them. Track their repayments. You choose who to lend to – whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in [...]

Continue reading about Kiva – loans that change lives »

Connecting the world through music. This documentary film records street musicians and people singing outdoors from all over the world. They sing/play different parts of the same song and the magical technicians layer it together. Here is a portion of “One Love” from the DVD: And “Stand By Me”: Playing for Change website

Continue reading about Playing for Change »

Just reading about this gives me shivers. Ever since I first started using ‘Gopher’ and ‘Mosaic’ to access information from my cabin in the woods of Saskatchewan in the early 90′s, I was an internet junkie. It felt like my tunnel-vision life opened up and the opportunity was endless. Now here is Nicholas Negroponte with [...]

Continue reading about give a laptop. get a laptop. change the world »