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December 30, 2005

Fish Hooks

- Crossroads Dispatches

Chinese giftpaper wrapped narrow boxes stretch and float on the black ink pool. Squid fishing boats in the distance shine like the flashlights in the tangle of the jungle. The absence of whirring speedboats echoes in the tender kiss...

Category: Awareness | Mind Training | Resiliency | Tsunami

December 29, 2005

Tan: 'Paradise is Inside'

- Crossroads Dispatches

Nearly half the staff of Maprao Resort - where I am staying now and was last year - fled from the island after the tsunami. The ones who stayed do not look out to sea just ten meters ahead...

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Resiliency | Travel

December 26, 2005

Hand Cleared

- Crossroads Dispatches

I spend an inordinate time at the press center organized by PhiPhi26community.com today uploading photos. From this vantage point at the Phi Phi Inn, which was also generously converted into a temporary medical center earlier this year until the...

Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami

Phi Phi Island, Thailand on Tsunami Anniversary, or the Laboon Anniversary

- Crossroads Dispatches

We stood for a minute of silence at 10:15 a.m. this morning. Later after the deputy prime minster has spoken, we file towards the bay. A six or seven-year old blond girl with a white sundress gently bows and...

Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami

December 24, 2005

Return to Paradise

- Crossroads Dispatches

I wake in the morning and peek through the mosquito netting and straight through the wide slats in the bamboo hut. My line of sight ahead is above the rooftop terrace bungalows where guests slept alfresco on the evening...

Category: Resiliency | Storytelling | Teachable Moments | Tsunami

December 14, 2005

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That's the Mardi Gras Spirit

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

A secret wish (ok, not so secret now): To go to Mardi Gras after I land back in the U.S. from the two-month whirlwind on February 20th. Here's more reason to go (via Ernie the Attorney):Mardi Gras is the...

Category: Innovators and Creators | Resiliency

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Tsunami Anniversary Trek: T-Minus 1 Day

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. — John Maynard Keynes (economist 1883-1946) (via Creativity at Work)Each moment is fresh. Our mind imposes the past on it. Each moment is...

Category: Innovators and Creators | Resiliency | Tsunami

December 11, 2005

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Tsunami Anniversary Trek: T-Minus 4 Days

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

Kathy Sierra mentioned slow last week. Sometimes slow is the exactly the point as illustrated in this snippet from Marsie's travelogue. She'd volunteered to construct a commemorative garden on tsunami-struck Phi Phi Island (where I was on December 26,...

Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Storytelling | Tsunami

December 10, 2005

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Tsunami Anniversary Trek: T-Minus 5 Days

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

'Have you ever noticed how easy it is to look back on events that happened a year or more in the past and see the perfection in them? For most of us this is true even for situations which...

Category: Awareness | Innovators and Creators | Resiliency

December 09, 2005

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Tsunami Anniversary Trek: T-Minus 6 Days

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

It is a good thing to have all our props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand, writes Madeleine L'Engle, author of Glimpses of...

Category: Awareness | Resiliency

December 07, 2005

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Fiercely Interdependent (plus a wee bit about social media & business models)

- Crossroads Dispatches (feed)

I'm fiercely independent. Always have been. But in the last few years I've yielded more to interdependence. Yet my first response about five hours into the tsunami aftermath was to feel utterly on my own. I'm screwed I'd concluded:...

Category: Awareness | Resiliency | Social Enterprise | Storytelling | The Greater Hunger | Tsunami

November 26, 2005

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Carnival of Healing #18 - Grace & Gratitude

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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything. - Albert Schweitzer (via the clear still...

Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Mind Training | Resiliency | The Greater Hunger