Garbage – The Silver Lining
June 30, 2009 by Colin
Filed under Community, Helping others
By Jeff Kinch
“Amateurs look for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and get to work”
-Glenn Gould
I was reminded of my favorite quote this morning. I live in the St. Lawrence Market area – a beautiful, vibrant neighborhood that is also routinely described as “colorful” (NOTE: Canada’s political term for “occupied by plenty [...]
Tonight's going to be a good night…
June 29, 2009 by Colin
Filed under Community, Entertainment, Family, Friends
I was fortunate to attend a wedding on the weekend for a good friend. This was one we had been anticipating for a quite a while. It was one of those weddings, where you know the bride and grooms families, you have met most of the local people previously and had some great [...]
The Responses
June 26, 2009 by Colin
Filed under Uncategorized
Wow!!! AWESOMENESS. You will see a some on the site and others that I collected from people responding below. Check them out. Amazing thoughts that may just energize you.
Have a great weekend.
C
Do I twitter? Not on purpose.
What energizes me? My dog, Barnaby.
-Jon. B
No on the Twitter – Tried it but [...]
Short and Sweet
June 25, 2009 by Colin
Filed under Community, Friends, Helping others
So a bit of a different theme this morning. Questions instead of answers. The rest of the community are curious to hear what you are thinking. They have told me.
Two questions:
Do you use twitter? Yes or no.
And…
What energizes you?
It could be a song, a place, a person, art, a situation, a movie, a [...]
Alex's Lemonade Stand
June 24, 2009 by Colin
Filed under Uncategorized
Sometimes it takes a child to raise awareness and leave a lasting legacy that could not be imagined before it happened.
Alex’s Lemonade stand is a leading childhood cancer nonprofit organization. Alex (short for Alexandra) ultimately passed away in 2004 at the age of 8 but her memory lives on.
Alex began selling lemonade in front of [...]
The Gladwell Conundrum
By Jeff Kinch
A thought has been gnawing at me for a few years now and it reached the “tipping point” (a joke that I hope makes sense in a few paragraphs) the other day when I heard someone refer to an “outlier” for what seemed to be the 519th time over the past few months.
Malcolm [...]
Beth Page Black
Reporting from the US Open – Beth Page Black – Farmingdale, NY
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend the US Golf Open in Farmingdale, NY. It’s one of the most famous Golf Tournaments in the world (2nd only to the Masters), a pinnacle of sport, with the flair and audacity like only NY [...]
Twitter this…
June 19, 2009 by Colin
Filed under Community, Family, Innovation, Technology
I was on the way to Boston early Wednesday morning for client meetings and on the way I picked up a copy of the Toronto Star. Front page story, election protests in Iran and the use of twitter. I had listened to the latest on traditional TV news coverage about the uprising and [...]
I'd Rather be…
You seen these bumper stickers? I’d rather be sailing, I’d rather be fishing, etc., etc..
Driving the family to Chicago last week I saw a new spin on the format and it has stayed with me…
“I’d rather be here, now.” Brilliant.
There’s a lot of chatter in the public media around “now”. Most [...]
Pushing the limits
DEAN KARNAZES WAS SLOBBERING DRUNK. IT WAS HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY, and he’d started with beer and moved on to tequila shots at a bar near his home in San Francisco. Now, after midnight, an attractive young woman – not his wife – was hitting on him. This was not the life he’d imagined for himself. [...]