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iMotherStories: Santa was a Old Woman
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Friday, December 12, 2008. Santa was a Old Woman. Milan, Italy - Holiday 2002/2003. Even for tough, entrepreneurial, prairie women, our previous year had been a pestilence. I wanted to see beauty again. We journeyed to Italy in mid winter and post holidays. But we found the Italians were not finished celebrating. Leave it to them to extend the art of festival to early January. If you can love that face the world changes. The third and most astounding epiphany was ...
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iMotherStories: Letting go of a melody
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Letting go of a melody. Betty's eyes were set deeper than the night before. She is having trouble speaking (when she is motivated to do so.). She spoke several times that night - the most memorable to me was when Joy the lovely hospice angel asked her "Betty, do you have any pain? Betty is on morphine now to ease her anxiety - mostly. Betty is trying to let go now - I think. Hi, Betty. How are you? What are you doing? Oh, Betty." Mar...
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iMotherStories: August 2012
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Dementia, identity and real time caring. Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Waiting for a time. I have lost hope in the future and it is a good thing. The death of my business. This month has shown me that I spend most of my time living in a elsewhere future world. In six years, it has never supported me, so why not? Is also among the dearly departed but mostly it is the death-rattle of my intimate and chronic future tense thinking that is revelatory. Pay off the credit cards. When my mother was alive and I was c...
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iNatureStories: The Presidio Flower Memorial
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Aphorisms in the way of walking. The Presidio Flower Memorial. In my daily sojourns into the Presidio National park, I observe how nature moves through the city. The funny thing about this two year long walking tale is that it is about humans that I do not know and mostly have never seen. I only find their leavings. The tale begins on the last day of a young runner’s life. A detective intercepted me – asking questions about an unidentified young woman who was hit and left for dead on Washington Blvd.
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iDigital Dirt: why I am an entrepreneur.
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Entrepreneural subduction and the digital landscape. Why I am an entrepreneur. Risk and Creation in the New Year. When you are a serial entrepreneur, you gotta stay flexible. I have been learning a lot about that – this year and in this economy… I have part-timed as a sommelier, a coat check, a hostess, and now an event manager with a walkie-talkie. I lead an “interesting” life in the Chinese sense and find myself with time on my hands to think about how I got here. Now that I am considerably older, have...
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iNatureStories: Mockingbirds and Xhosa Cat calls
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Aphorisms in the way of walking. Mockingbirds and Xhosa Cat calls. 23 June 2004 - (this was published as a shorter version in a KQED Perspective). Gophers operate the lowest tactical undercover missions tunneling into the earth. These result in mysterious disappearances of individuals in my planted rows. It is like some inverse straw that sucks the plant and air down into the earth leaving a neat little round hole where the plant use to be. Learning how to get out of my way…. Adventures in non-dualism...
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iDigital Dirt: husbanding innovation.
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Entrepreneural subduction and the digital landscape. Malcolm Gladwell has typically brilliant things to say here in his new book about society’s “Outliers” – those real innovators that create and are successful at building companies. Check out what my good friend, David Brooks has to say in his 12/16/08 NY Times column:. Tell me something that I don’t know…. My great grandmother on the Nebraska prairie had three choices when her husband died in the 1890’s for supporting 7 young sons:. 2 a practical nurse.
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iDigital Dirt: killing our albatrosses.
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Entrepreneural subduction and the digital landscape. My “glass ceilings” as a white woman have NEARLY butted up against the only /most important ceiling for “Outliers” it is the one that most matters in creating a world of our choosing: our beliefs are the ONLY things that ever hold us back. So the deeper point is why lament society’s limitations when I/we so effectively bitch-slap ourselves? African-American men got the vote 55 years before women and Obama will be President in a few days. He is ther...
