Posted on December 24th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
I had to share this with you. We’ve all heard of the Taliban’s acid attacks on girls going to school in Afghanistan. Check out these girls. They’ve already been attacked AND they continue to go to school.
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
In my life time, I saw a great man destroy his career, shame himself and usher in this current time. I was at Berkeley when he was nominated to the Supreme Court. You can imagine the conversations! The dialog! The fear! As it turns out, this man did a decent job of steering the Supreme Court. [...]
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Posted on November 14th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
In an effort to research Colorado for a novel and the Denver Cereal, I’ve been reading “Western Voices, 125 years of Colorado Writing.” The book is a compilation of essays about Colorado collected by the Colorado HIstorical Society magazine.
I read this essay yesterday and knew I needed share some of it with you:
“I was ten [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries
or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job.
It lies with each of us individually.
Peace, for example, starts within each one of us.
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.”
–HH the Dalai Lama
Let’s get [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
Video is about 1 1/2 minutes long
Will it be you?
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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
This comic draws for the Rocky Mountain News. I know that my neighborhood looks like this.
Does yours?
We live in interesting times!
Happy Friday!
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Posted on October 17th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
This made me laugh. Curtesy of Coyote Crossing
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
“I am sorry that I lived long enough to see the Middle Class I helped create turn on the poor.”
–Tip O’Neill
In our conversations about the current economic crisis, I hear so many people blame the poor for their poverty. They should have ‘known better’ or should be ‘more responsible’.
Poverty is not a choice.
It’s an endless [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
I wanted to share a few human stories from my street.
Hedge Fund guy: We moved into our home in March, 2002. Hedge Fund guy was one of the first people we met. We’d never heard of a Hedge Fund. He was a funny, friendly guy who taught skiing to disabled people in his free time. [...]
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Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
It’s four minutes and worth watching even if you vote.
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