A week to smooth some edges

Once not so long ago, when I was working hard in a yoga class, I heard the teacher suggest, “If you are a Type A, if you’re always striving and pushing, try working a little less hard.  And if you know that you tend to slack off, push yourself today.”
We are (mostly) who we are.  [...]

The psychology of real

Today I was talking about the economy with someone who I respect a lot.  She said that we still don’t know how much of what’s going on in the economy is real and how much is psychology.
I respectfully disagreed.  What strikes me most about this economic crisis is that what’s psychology is real.  There’s no [...]

Kiva’s Kenyan customers on Obama

In case you needed more proof about how small the world has become, here’s a video from a Kiva Fellow who decided to ask some Kiva customers what they thought about Barack Obama.

Hat tip to the Kiva chronicles blog for the video.

Obama: poetry on an historic day

A friend with a sharp eye saw this handwritten sign in a window in the midst of last night’s election coverage:
rosa sat so
martin could walk so
barack could run so
our children could fly
And this morning Maya Angelou read part of her poem “Still I Rise” on CBS:
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your [...]