If everything seems under control,” said auto racer Mario Andretti, “you’re probably not moving fast enough. Free Will Astrology : Libra Horoscope Source: freewillastrology.com
Author Archives: brownstudy7975
Libra Horoscope for week of August 16, 2012 The Hubble Space Telescope has taken 700,000 photos of deep space. Because it’s able to record details that are impossible to capture from the earth’s surface, it has dramatically enhanced astronomers’ understanding of stars and galaxies. This miraculous technology got off to a rough start, however. Soon …
My event planning template
In 2009, I was recruited by The Ineluctable Cassidy to be an event planner for the local ASIS&T group she was leading. We had a pretty punishing schedule of four events per academic year, and planning involved mailing lists, searching out event locales, creating a flyer, sending out emails, arranging refreshments, etc. These were a …
“I am completely an elitist in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener at work or a good carpenter …
On being an information packrat — Part IV
One of the great things about a good productivity system is that it contains decision points where you can decide to keep or dismiss outdated tasks. If “buy Christmas cards” is on your list, and it’s April, then you can probably safely delete that task and not miss it. Not so with information. Dismissing old …
Continue reading “On being an information packrat — Part IV”
Depression frequently occurs as resistance to the flow. Anxiety can come from focusing too much on the unknowns of the future and feeling unsupported. A lack of movement in your life indicates a lack of gratitude for that area of your life. Dear Ones, yet again we tell you that the key to empowered living …
Robertson Davies on Useful Knowledge
In one of his early novels, a Robertson Davies character delivers a little speech that impressed me so much at the time that I’ve delightedly trotted it out whenever the subject of information management rears its tedious head.
On being an information packrat – Part III
The first post in this series looked at information hoarding, and the second looked at mindsets that could help me reframe the problem. So, with those things in mind, what can I do in the heat of battle to help me stem the information flowing from my web browser and onto my computer?
An improv principle and event planning
In the winter of aught-six, I took a beginning improv class at DSI Comedy Theatre and learned a lesson that I pass along almost as holy writ to others.
National Night Out
I am taking a break from blog posts of ghastly length and inordinate self-absorption because today is National Night Out (NNO) and I’m my neighborhood’s NNO organizer this year.