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When the end is just the beginning

By ⋅ December 15, 2009 ⋅

I’ve just finished my class “Social Web for Social Change,” an elective at my progressive MBA program here at Bainbridge Graduate Institute. First and foremost, I am a social being (we all kinda are) and my generation’s upbringing leaves me destined to being online. This influence doesn’t not leave me. So while the class is [...]

New Community, a poem

By ⋅ November 1, 2009 ⋅

Grey, cold skies chill the bones of relationships. The wind forces a relationship between water and land, soggy sand erodes into cloudy water. Footprint now gone. A new order takes frozen communities and imperfectly rejuvenates them. Connection means energy, like the white crest of a wave waiting to crash. Creation in the face of destruction, [...]

Comparing Online vs. Offline

By ⋅ October 28, 2009 ⋅

Tonight was a good night of work at the theater. It all went by quickly. This was due to jovial conversation, joking, and comradeship. Just fun. The tips were good and I didn’t seem to have much on my mind. When I got home, of course after going out for a beer, stress via my [...]

Preserving the Endangered Language of Community

By ⋅ July 6, 2009 ⋅

This weekend I got a chance to talk to my mom. I got into my rant about how we are losing communities and not sharing resources. From my soap box I overshot my point. I found myself stuck my own generational rut and my mom looking at me with eyes that said disconcertingly, young people [...]

Why Partner? Focus your energy on what you do best, partner for the rest

By ⋅ June 26, 2009 ⋅

This is part 2 in a series on community partnerships…This series came out of my two years of service with Michigan Campus Compact at Eastern Michigan University as an AmeriCorps*VISTA. “Focus your energy on what you do best, partner for the rest” -Heart of West Michigan United Way I love this quote because it invokes [...]

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