November 12, 2005

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About Me

Table of Contents

Biography
Books I've Been Reading Lately (updated 3/11/2002)
Books That Sara's Been Reading Lately (updated 5/20/2002)
Concerts I've Been To (updated 8/27/2001)
Favorite Books (updated 3/11/2002)
Favorite CD's
Favorite Movies (updated 8/27/2001)
Genealogy
Ideas That Have Influenced Me (updated 5/22/2002)
Interests (updated 15 Sep 2005)
Movies I Have Seen (updated 8/27/2001)
Movies I Want To See
Music I've Been Listening To Lately (updated 09/12/2001)
Places I've Traveled (updated 8/27/2001)
Things I've Been Doing Lately (updated 9/27/2001)
Timeline/Chronology
Where I've Lived

Biography

I'm Robert Bednark, known as "Rob" or "Robbie". I was born in Minnesota in 1969. I grew up in rural Minnesota in dairy farming country. My parents owned and operated a manufacturing company out in the country that they built in 1950 and ran until they sold it in 1979. The company employed 10 people and manufactured wooden bed frames, the internal support used in box springs, the part of the bed under the mattress.

I have 6 siblings -- 3 sisters and 3 brothers. I am the youngest by 10 years. My father died in 1980, and my mother now lives in Fountain Hills, AZ.

I graduated from Healy High School in Pierz, Minnesota in 1987. I attended St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota from 1987-1992, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science (BSCS) and a minor in Human Relations.

I worked for Com Squared Systems in Minneapolis from 1992-1996 as a Software Engineer, writing client-server database software in DOS, MS-Windows, and UNIX, using Pascal, Visual Basic, and C. Sara and I moved to Oregon in November, 1996, and I started working as a contractor for Informix in December, 1996. I became a permanent Informix employee on 1/1/98. Informix was purchased by IBM in July, 2001, so I now work for IBM. At Informix I worked on a build team doing build and release engineering of database servers, working on Unix and MS-Windows using Perl, Clearcase, Bourne shell (sh), and C; I also did a competitive analysis, and worked on a web-search product similar to Google. Since Dec 2001 I've been working on the test team for SAN File System.

Genealogy

Parents:

Benjamin "Ben" Andrew Bednark (7/18/13 - 3/13/80)
Bernice Beatrice (Pulak) (Bednark) Drywa

Siblings:

Karen Jones - Tulsa, OK
Dan Bednark - Scottsdale, AZ
Cheryle Andrea - Pierz, MN
Donna Young - Pierz, MN
John Bednark - St. Cloud, MN
Greg Bednark - St. Cloud, MN

Nieces and Nephews:

Shawn Andrea (Cheryle)
Angie Young (Donna)
Cory Andrea (Cheryle)
Chris Young (Donna)
Ben Jones (Karen)
Jonathan Bednark (John)
Deborah Jones (Karen)
Jessica Bednark (John)
Julie Bednark (John)
Brett Kuntz (Angie)

Interests
(updated 15 Sep 2005)

Violin / fiddle - I started playing the violin in Feb, 2005, and I'm loving it! I take lessons from Kay Johnson in Gresham.
Meditation - been meditating with class in Portland since Aug 1997.
Spirituality
Reading (non-fiction; topics include creativity, psychology, consciousness, perception, drugs, meta-cognition, meditation, spirituality, linguistics, communication, education, learning, management, anthropology, biographies, health, healing, New Age topics, motivation, inspiration, attention, philosophy of science, social science, consumerism, investing, investment psychology).
Linguistics -- language, languages, phonemes, vocabulary, cultural issues, values, general semantics
Cultural differences.
Playing drums (trap set, hand drums (djembe, bongos, frame drums))
Traveling (see Places I've Traveled)
Eyesight improvement -- improving my vision
Tutoring - from February 1997 to June 1998 Sara and I tutored English to a Cambodian family.
Hiking.
Flying - I have a private pilot's license (115 hours in Cessna 150/152; 170/172)
Soaring - I started gliding/soaring lessons 4/98 in sailplanes / glider-planes.
Time perception -- how do we perceive time? How do drugs affect time perception? How can we purposely affect our time perception?
Management and leadership -- Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, ...
Investing in stocks and stock options

Favorite Books
(updated 3/11/2002)

Brand, Stewart
"The Essential Whole Earth Catalog : Access to Tools and Ideas" 1986.
Campbell, George L.
"Concise Compendium of the World's Languages" (1995)"
Crystal, David
"The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language"
De Bono, Edward
"I Am Right, You Are Wrong - From Rock Logic to Water Logic"
Dikkers, Scott (and others)
"Our Dumb Century : 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source" 1999. (read 09/06/99-09/20/99)
Comments: Satirical news stories of this century.
Elliot, William
"Tying Rocks to Clouds : Meetings and Conversations with Wise and Spiritual People" 1995
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
"The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" 2000. (read 5/15 - 5/31/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on epidemics (in the general sense) and what causes them.
Hayakawa, S. I.
"Language in Though and Action" 1939,1940,1941,1949,1963,1964,1972,1978, (read 8/98,1/99,3/00)
Kornfied, Jack
" After the Ecstasy, the Laundry : How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path" 2000. (read 8/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on spiritual growth.
Lightman, Alan
"Einstein's Dreams"
Moore, Dinty
"The Accidental Buddhist" 1997
Pirsig, Robert
"Lila"
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Postman, Neil
"Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology" 1992. (read 5/10 - 8/21/2000)
Comments: Excellent book about the unquestionable authority of technology and the negative effects it has on humanity.
Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D.
"My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Courage, and Belonging" 2000. (read 10/2001)
Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D.
"Kitchen Table Wisdom : Stories That Heal" 1996. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Read entire book. Loved it. Wonderful book of small stories about healing. See my Book Notes for my favorite passages from the book.
Subjects: 2) Remen, Rachel Naomi -- Philosophy. 3) Physicians -- United States -- Biography. 4) Meditations.
Roberts, Monty
"The Man Who Listens to Horses" 1997 (read 2/98)
Rushkoff, Douglas & Wells, Patrick
""Free rides: how to get high without drugs" 1991
Shenk, David, 1966-
"Data Smog : Surviving the Information Glut" 1997. (read 10/2000)
Comments: Excellent book about being unundated with data from advertising, tv, radio, email, ... and the effects that it has on people and society.
Slater, Philip
"The Wayward Gate : Science and the Supernatural" 1977.
Stoll, Clifford
"High Tech Heretic : Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian" 1999. (read 6/26-7/09/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on why computers are overrated, why they shouldn't be in classrooms, and the cost they have on society.
Strauch, Ralph
"The Reality Illusion - How You Make the World You Experience"
Talbot, Michael
"The Holographic Universe" 1991. (read 1/98)
Weil, Andrew
"Spontaneous Healing"
"The Natural Mind : An Exploration of Drugs and Higher Consciousness"
Weil, Andrew & Rosen, Winifred
"From Chocolate to Morphine : Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs"
Wise, Anna
"The High Performance Mind - Mastering Brainwaves for Insight, Creativity, & Healing"
Yogananda, Paramahansa
"Autobiography of a Yogi" 1959 (read 1997)

Books I've Been Reading Lately
(updated 18 July 2004)

Rice, Sydney
"Choice Points : Navigate Your Career Using the Unique PaperRoom Process"" 2004. (read 7/2004)
Comments: Good book on making choices and breaking habits of not doing things that you want to do.
Pollan, Stephen M.
"Fire Your Boss"" 2004. (read 7/2004)
Comments: Excellent book.
Jansen, Julie
"I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This : A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work" 2003. (read 7/2004)
Comments: Has some good exercises for determining strengths and interests. Also good theory of stages of work and life (Where's the Meaning?, Been There Done That Bug Still Need to Earn, ...)
McTaggart, Lynne
"What Doctors Don't Tell You : The Truth About the Dangers of Modern Medicine" 1996,1998. (read 7/2004)
Comments: Excellent book. I was particularly interested in the chapter on vaccinations.
Carse, James P.
"The Silence of God : Meditations on Prayer" 1985. (read 8/2001)
Comments: Excellent book. Loved it.
Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D.
"My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Courage, and Belonging" 2000. (read 10/2001)
Comments: Excellent book. Loved it.
Parent, Marc
"Believing It All : What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life" 2001. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Loved it.
Stewart, Edward C. and Milton J. Bennett
"American Cultural Patterns : A Cross-Cultural Perspective" 1991. (read 10/2001)
Comments: Good book on cultural differences between Americans and others. Good content, but written in a way that makes it time-consuming to read to get the meat. Had to return -- get again.
Index. No glossary. Bibliography/references (150 works).
SUBJECTS 2. National characteristics, American -- Cross-cultural studies. 3. United States -- Civilization -- Cross-cultural studies.
Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D.
"Kitchen Table Wisdom : Stories That Heal" 1996. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Read entire book. Loved it. One of my favorite books. Wonderful book of small stories about healing. See my Book Notes for my favorite passages from the book.
Subjects: 2) Remen, Rachel Naomi -- Philosophy. 3) Physicians -- United States -- Biography. 4) Meditations.
Bennett, Milton J. (editor)
"Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication : Selected Readings" 1998. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Had to return. Get again. Good articles about how different cultures communicate differently.
Index. No Glossary. Notes/footnotes. Bibliography/references (50 works).
CONTENTS Communication in a global village / Dean Barnlund -- The power of hidden differences / Edward T. Hall -- Multicultural education: development, dimensions, and challenges / James A. Banks -- Science and linguistics / Benjamin Lee Whorf -- Culture: a perceptual approach / Marshall R. Singer -- Interactions between North Americans and Japanese: considerations of communication style / Sheila J. Ramsey -- Black and White cultural styles in pluralistic perspective / Thomas Kochman -- Cultural assumptions and values / Edward C. Stewart, Jack Danielian, and Robert J. Foster -- Stumbling blocks in intercultural communication / LaRay M. Barna -- Overcoming the Golden Rule: sympathy and empathy / Milton J. Bennet -- Transition shock: putting culture shock in perspective / Janet M. Bennett -- Beyond cultural identity: reflections on multiculturalism / Peter S. Adler.
SUBJECTS 1) Intercultural communication.
Johnson, Steven
" Interface Culture : How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate" 1997. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Had to return. Get again. Good ideas about metaphors for computer software, and about weaknesses of Internet that haven't been exploited.
Index. No Glossary. Notes/footnotes. No Bibliography/references.
SUBJECTS 1) Information technology -- Social aspects. 2) Information society. 3) Communication and culture.
Schacter, Daniel L.
"The Seven Sins of Memory : How the Mind Forgets and Remembers" 2001. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Had to return. Get again. Interesting stories and studies about memory.
Index. No Glossary. Extensive Notes/footnotes. Huge Bibliography/references (300+ works).
SUBJECTS 1) Memory disorders. 2) Memory. 3) Recollection (Psychology)
Vick, Timothy
"How To Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett : Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor" 2001. (read 9/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Had to return. Get it again. Table of contents looks good.
Index. No Glossary. Notes/footnotes. No Bibliography/references .
SUBJECTS 1) Investments -- United States. 2) Stocks -- United States.
Carse, James P.
"Breakfast at the Victory : the Mysticism of Ordinary Experience" 1994. (read 8/2001)
Comments: Excellent book. One of my favorites.
No Index. No Glossary. No Notes/footnotes. No Bibliography/references.
SUBJECTS 1) Mysticism. 2) Spiritual life. 3) Psychology, Religious.
Lomax, Alan The Land Where The Blues Began 1990 (videotape from library)
Comments: Excellent video documentary about the birthplace of the blues in the Mississippi Delta.
SUBJECTS 1) Documentary films. 2) Popular culture -- Mississippi. 3) Blues (Music) -- Mississippi. 4) African Americans -- Mississippi. 5) Blues (Music)
Carlin, George
"Napalm and Silly Putty" 2001. (read 8/2001)
Comments: Funny. Skimmed, had to return it.
No Index. No Glossary. No Notes/footnotes. No Bibliography/references (xx works).
Subjects: American wit and humor.
Peace Pilgrim
"Peace Pilgrim : Her Life and Work In Her Own Words" 1983,1991. (read 8/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Had to return. Very good.
No Index. No Glossary. No Notes/footnotes. No Bibliography/references.
Subjects: 2. Peace Pilgrim, d. 1981. 3. Pacifists -- United States -- Biography.
Gardner, Howard
"Extraordinary Minds : Portraits of 4 Exceptional Individuals and An Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness" 1997. (read 8/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Had to return. Good final chapter called "Lessons" that sums up the lessons learned.
Index. No glossary. No notes/footnotes. Bibliography (100 works).
Subjects: SERIES 2. MasterMinds SUBJECTS 3. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. 4. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. 5. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. 6. Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. 7. Gifted persons. 8. Gifted persons -- Case studies.
Bowers, C. A.
"Let Them Eat Data : How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability" 2000. (read 7/2001)
Comments: Looks good. Wasn't in mood to read it. Would like to get again.
Table of Contents:
1. Globalizing Cyberspace: Vision and Reality
2. The Culture of Cyberspace and Everyday Life
3. Displacing Wisdom with Data: Ecological Implications
4. Evolutionary Theory and the Global Computer Culture
5. The False Promises of Computer-Based Education
6. Why Computers Should Not Replace Teachers
7. Rethinking Technology: What Educational Institutions Can Do
Index. No Glossary. No Notes. Bibliography (100 works).
Subjects: 2. Computers and civilization. 3. Education -- Data processing.
Wurman, Richard Saul
"Follow The Yellow Brick Road : Learning to Give, Take, and Use Instructions" 1992. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Good book on instructions. Skimmed. Would like to read more in depth - had to return. Book is layed out nicely. Good graphical design. Good examples and quotes.
Index. No Glossary. No Notes. Bibliography (100 works).
Subjects: Oral communication.
Davidson and Associates / Simon and Schuster
"Typing Tutor 7" (computer software) 1996. (used 5/2001)
Comments: Good software for learning typing. I was learning it to improve my Dvorak keyboard skills.
Subjects: Typewriting -- Interactive multimedia; CD-ROM product.
Hayes, Charles (1955-) (editor)
"Tripping : An Anthology Of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures" 2000. (read 7/2001)
Comments: Excellent book. Fascinating reading of 50 different psychedelic trips that 50 different people have taken, and the profound impact that it had on their lives. Excellent introduction that talks about the general impacts of psychedelic drugs. See my Book Notes web page for quotes that I've selected from the book.
Index. Glossary of psychedelic substances. Notes. Bibliography (30 works, including web sites, films, and organizations).
Coen, Ethan and Joel Coen
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (movie script) 2000. (read 6/2001)
Comments: Script to the movie.
No Index. No Glossary. No Notes. No Bibliography.
Subjects: None.
Brian, Denis
"The Enchanted Voyager : The Life of J.B. Rhine : An Authorized Biography" 1982. (read 6/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Interesting story about Rhine, the Duke University scientist that researched a lot of paranormal things, including telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis. Get again.
Index. No glossary. Notes. No Bibliography.
Subjects: Rhine, J. B. (Joseph Banks), 1895-1980; Parapsychology -- Research -- Biography
Gleick, James
"Chaos : Making a New Science" 1987. (read 6/2001)
Comments: Didn't get a chance to read. Had to return it. Would like to get it again. Index. No bibliography, but extensive notes and citations.
Subjects:
Streznewski, MaryLou Kelly
"Gifted Grownups : The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential" 1999. (read 4/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't grab me. Didn't like all the stories. No good summaries. Lack of index. Good quotes at beginning of chapters. Recommended to me by TC, who like it. Very good annotated recommended reading section.
No index. Bibliography (400 works).
Subjects: Gifted persons; Gifted persons -- Case studies; Creative ability -- Social aspects.
LaBier, M. Rogan
"The Nasdaq Trader's Toolkit" 2001. (read 6/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Good explanation of level II and level III quotes. Good explanation of market-makers and what they do. Good explanations of electronic trading networks (ECN's) (like Island, Instinet, Archipelago, Redibook), small order execution system (SOES), SuperSOES, SelectNET.
Index. No Bibliography.
Subjects:
Gleick, James
"Genius : The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" 1992. (read 6/2001)
Comments: Enjoying.
Subjects: Feynman, Richard Phillips.; Physics -- History -- 20th century; Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Dertouzos, Michael
"The Unfinished Revolution : Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do for Us" 2001. (read 5/29/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Would like to get again. Talks about metaphors used for computers. What short-comings are of computers and software. Well-written. Index. No bibliography.
Subjects: Human-computer interaction; User interfaces (Computer systems)
Storti, Craig
"Figuring Foreigners Out : A Practical Guide" 1999. (read 5/16/2001)
Comments: Very good book on cultural differences, with many quizzes that ask you to identify the trait for a given instance. Topics include concept of self (individualist-collectivist), personal versus societal responsibility (universalist-particularist), time (monochronic-polychronic), locus of control (internal-external), verbal communication (direct-indirect), nonverbal communication (body language), and culture in the workplace. No index. Bibliography (60 works).
Subjects: cross-cultural orientation; intercultural communication
Gilder, George (1939-)
"Tele-cosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World" 2000. (read 5/16/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Excellent appendix listing the 20 laws of the telecosm. Excellent appendix listing the telecosm companies and the 9 telecosm stars. No bibliography. Index.
Subjects: telecommunication -- forecasting
Shenk, David
"The End of Patience : Cautionary Notes on the Information Revolution" 1999. (read 5/16/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. A collection of essays. Didn't grab me. I loved his other book, "Data Smog". Index. No bibliography.
Subjects: Information technology -- Social aspects; Telecommunication -- Social aspects; Information society
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" 1963. (read 4/2001-6/2001)
Comments: Very enjoyable. Second reading. First read 20 years ago.
Hall, Edward T. and Mildred Reed Hall
"Understanding Cultural Differences : Germans, French, and Americans" 1990. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Very good. Has a good short summary of key topics of time, context, space, information flow, interfacing. Short book. Index. Bibliography (40 works).
Subjects: intercultural communication; national characteristics; industrial management; corporations -- management
Maital, Shlomo
"Minds, Markets, and Money : Psychological Foundations of Economic Behavior" 1982. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Good book on behavioral finance / Economics -- psychological aspects. Written in a more informal way, so enjoyable reading. Index.
Maital Shlomo and Sharone L. Maital
"Economic Games People Play " 1984. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't grab me. Includes 30 different games, like "Dollar Option" and "Hot Potato". Might be worthwhile if getting into this topic more. Subject: behavioral finance / Economics -- psychological aspects. Index.
Bernstein, Jake
"The Investor's Quotient : The Psychology of Successful Investing in Commodities and Stocks" 1993. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't care for topic. Concerned with personal psychological aspects of investing, like risk, fear, attitudes. Index. Subject: behavioral finance / Economics -- psychological aspects.
Shiller, Robert J.
"Irrational Exuberance" 2000. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Discusses factors that have led to the big stock market rise of the late 1990's. Tends toward the more scholarly and formal side. Index. Extensive bibliography. Subject: behavioral finance; Economics -- psychological aspects; investment psychology.
Myers, Jonathan
"Profits Without Panic : Investment Psychology for Personal Wealth" 1999. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Decent summary of ideas presented at the end of the book. Good for skimming. Didn't find any new ideas in it. Index. Bibliography (30 listed). Subject: behavioral finance; Economics -- psychological aspects; investment psychology.
Senge, Peter; Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross, George Roth, Bryan Smith
"The Dance of Change : The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations" 1999. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Big book, wordy. No summaries or general principles. Didn't grab me. Good index. No bibliography. Subject: organizational change; organizational learning
Winston, Brian
"Media Technology and Society : A History : From the Telegraph to the Internet" 1998. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Very wordy, detailed, factual, historical. Didn't grab me. Good index. Extensive bibliography (300 works).
Subjects: Mass media -- social aspects; mass media -- technological innovations -- history.
Hall, Edward T.
"An Anthropology of Everyday Life : An Autobiography" 1992. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Author of books about cultural differences and time perception. Might be interesting to get again and read. Didn't look particularly inviting or interesting. No index. Bibliography (50 works).
Subjects: intercultural communication; Edward Twitchell Hall, 1914-; personality and culture; ethnopsychology
Axtell, Roger E. (compiled by the Parker Pen Company)
"Do's and Taboos Around the World" 1985,1990,1993. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Practical book of cultural differences, including protocol, customs, etiquette, hand gestures and body language, gift giving and receiving, American jargon, and tips for incoming visitors to the U.S. Index. Bibliography (20 works).
Subjects: intercultural communication; business etiquette
Rushkoff, Douglas
"Coercion : Why We Listen to What "They" Say" 1999. (read 5/14/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Good topic. Linear, storylike -- not very skimmable. Interesting facts of ways that business use to persuade us to buy things. No index. Bibliography (100 works).
Subjects: mass media -- influence; persuasion (psychology)
Mero, Laszlo
"Moral Calculations : Game Theory, Logic, and Human Frailty" 1998. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't grab me. But looks well-written for what it is. I would like to see a summary of ideas/principles from it.
de Bono, Edward
"How You Can Be More Interesting" 1997. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't grab me. I would like to see a summary of the ideas that he presents. The book has a lot of exercises. I don't like how the book is layed out. No index. I think there are a number of good ideas in it, but would take quite a bit of effort to extract them.
Read, Stuart
"The Oracle Edge : How Oracle Corporation's Take-No-Prisoners Strategy Has Created an $8 Billion Software Powerhouse" 2000. (read 2/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Interesting.
de Bono, Edward
"Sur/Petition : Creating Value Monopolies When Everyone Else is Merely Competing" 1992. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Some good ideas.
Brown, Jerry
"Dialogues" 1998. (read 2/2001)
Comments: Some good interviews with Thich Nhat Hanh and Noam Chomsky.
Sinclair, Kevin and Iris Wong Po-yee
"Culture Shock! China : A Guide to Customs and Etiquette" 1990,1996,1998. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Skimmed.
Lesikar, Raymond V., John D. Pettit, Jr., and Marie E. Flatley
"Basic Business Communication" 1979-1993. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't have what I was looking for. Textbook. Big. I'm still looking for some basic psychological principles for making suggestions without being pushy, like "use 'I' instead of 'you'".
Wilson, Mike
"The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison : Inside Oracle Corporation" 1997. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Didn't read. Looks interesting.
Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber
"Trust Us, We're Experts! : How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future" 2001. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Didn't read. Looks like an excellent book on perception and how corporations persuade consumers to believe lies. Lot of detailed stories. Wasn't in the mood to read it.
Chesla, Elizabeth, M.A.
"Improve Your Writing For Work" 2000. (read 5/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Pretty good. I'm still looking for some basic psychological principles for making suggestions without being pushy, like "use 'I' instead of 'you'".
Creative Wonders
"Slam Dunk Typing" (CD-ROM Software) 1997. (tried 4/19/2001)
Comments: Wouldn't install on Windows NT 4 or Windows 2000. Requires Windows 3.1, 95, or 98.
ViaGraphix
"Learning Excel 97, Advanced" (CD-ROM) 1998. (watched 4/19/2001)
Comments: Pretty good CD-ROM that shows you how to use Microsoft Excel. Has audio/video demonstrations. There are also Intermediate, Introduction, Macros, and Charts CD's available separately.
Fisher, Frederick
"Culture Shock! A Globetrotter's Guide" 1995. (read 4/18/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Culture Shock! is a very good series on cultural differences. This one is a good general one, including info about transportation, companionship, women travelling alone, costs, food, health, shopping, and other issues.
Shleifer, Andrei
"Inefficient Markets : An Introduction to Behavioral Finance" 2000. (read 4/18/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Decent book on behavioral finance. Chapters include "Are Financial Markets Efficient?", "A Model of Investor Sentiment", "Positive Feedback Investment Strategies", and "Open Problems". Pretty scholarly, and quite a bit of heavy math/statistics. But some good general principles to be gained. Very extensive bibliography. Good index.
Krantz, Grover S.
"Big Footprints: A Scientific Inquiry Into the Reality of Sasquatch" 1992. (read 4/18/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Good book on Bigfoot/Sasquatch. Krantz is a professor of physical anthropology at Washington State University. Book includes pictures of footprints, and casts. Good analysis on whether bigfoot exists or doesn't exist.
Dixon, Nancy M.
"Common Knowledge : How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know" 2000. (read 4/18/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Good book. Would like to get again and read more. Has index. Real examples of actual companies and how they share info. No bibliography.
Subjects: organizational learning; intellectual cooperation; knowledge management; business enterprises -- communication systems
Thomas Bros. Maps
"Portland Metro Area 1999" (CD-ROM) 1999. (looked at 4/18/2001)
Comments: Online representation of Thomas Guide map of Portland. Search function for addresses, parks, schools, etc. Map looks identical to paper Thomas Guide. Didn't see much value in it, unless you were looking for a house and wanted to quickly punch in addresses.
Electronic Arts
"SimCity 3000" (CD-ROM) 1998. (read 4/18/2001)
Comments: Looks like an interesting game. I didn't have enough disk space (230 MB) to install. Tried a demo and it didn't work.
Electronic Arts
"The Sims : The People Simulator from the Creator of SimCity" (CD-ROM) 2000. (read 4/18/2001)
Comments: Looks like an interesting game. I didn't have enough disk space to install (300 MB).
de Bono, Edward
"New Thinking for the New Millennium" 2000. (read 2/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Didn't grab me like some of his other books. Good ideas. Layed out in essay-like form.
Curley, Michael T. and Walker, Joseph A.
"How to Prepare for the Stockbroker Exam : Series 7" (read 2/2001)
Comments: Good book on explaining stock and option trading, bonds, underwriting, over-the-counter, federal reserve, and securities analysis of financial statements.
Westheimer, Patricia H.
"The Perfect Memo! Write Your Way to Career Success!" 1995. (read 3/2001)
Comments: Pretty good. I like the way it's written. I'm still looking for some basic psychological principles for making suggestions without being pushy, like "use 'I' instead of 'you'".
Millennia Corp (publisher)
"Charting Your Family History : Including Legacy, Family Tree Software Version 2.0, on CD-ROM, for Microsoft Windows" 1997. (read 3/2001)
Comments: Book and software for creating a family tree. Good software. Didn't have to read book.
Olatunji, Babatunde
"African Drumming" (videotape) 1993. (watched 3/13/2001)
Comments: Videotape that shows how to play African hand drums. Learned a couple techniques. Enjoyed it. Pace of lecturing and instruction was *very* slow.
Najarian, Jon
"How I Trade Options" 2001. (read 3/2001)
Comments: Skimmed. Looks good. Would like to read when I have time. Had to return it.
Maclean, Norman
"Young Men and Fire" 1992. (read 3/1/2001)
Comments: Started. Non-fiction work about 13 fire jumpers that died in a forest fire in 1949 in Montana. Well-written, but it didn't interest me at the time. Highly recommended by a co-worker.
Hall, Edward T.
"The Dance of Life : The Other Dimension of Time" 1983. (read 2/2001)
Comments: Interesting book on peoples' perception of time. Skimmed. Would like to read more. Had to return it.
Read, Stuart
"The Oracle Edge : How Oracle Corporation's Take-No-Prisoner's Strategy Has Create An $8 Billion Software Powerhouse 2000. (read 01/2001)
Comments: Good book on how Oracle became successful, their corporate culture, their strategies.
Hary, Mickey and Fredric Lieberman
"Spirit Into Sound : The Magic of Music" 2000. (read 01/2001)
Comments: Excellent book on quotes about music.
Allen, Henry
"What It Felt Like : Living in the American Century" 2000. (read 11/2000)
Comments: Excellent book. A chapter on each of the decades in America. Gives a feel of what it was like to live in each of the time periods. Small book, with short (16 page) chapters.
Johnson, Spencer
"Who Moved My Cheese? : An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life" 1998. (read 11/2000)
Comments: Well summarized in a Dilbert cartoon - "Change happens. Get over it.". I'm surprised by the hoopla over this book. Worth pondering why it's such a popular book right now.
Dylan, Bob 1941-
"Lyrics: 1962-1985" 1985. (read 5/2000)
Comments: Good book of all of Dylan's lyrics from '62-'85. Includes drawings by Dylan.
Rushkoff, Douglas
"Coercion : Why We Listen To What "They" Say 1999. (read 10/2000)
Comments: Good book about persuasion/coercion in marketing, advertising,...
Duncan, David James
"The River Why" 1983. (read 10/2000)
Comments: Enjoyed it.
Winters, Paul A. (book editor)
"The Information Revolution : Opposing Viewpoints" 1998. (read 10/2/2000)
Comments: OK. I prefer "Data Smog", "Technopoly", and Cliff Stoll's books more.
Shenk, David, 1966-
"Data Smog : Surviving the Information Glut" 1997. (read 10/2000)
Comments: Excellent book about being unundated with data from advertising, tv, radio, email, ... and the effects that it has on people and society.
Index. No Glossary. Notes/footnotes. No Bibliography/references.
SUBJECTS 1) Information society. 2) Information society -- United States. 3) Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Kornfied, Jack
" After the Ecstasy, the Laundry : How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path" 2000. (read 8/2000-9/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on spiritual growth.
Postman, Neil
"Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology" 1992. (read 5/10 - 8/21/2000)
Comments: Excellent book about the unquestionable authority of technology and the negative effects it has on humanity.
Stoll, Clifford
"High Tech Heretic : Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian" 1999. (read 6/26-7/09/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on why computers are overrated, why they shouldn't be in classrooms, and the cost they have on society.
Belsky, Gary and Gilovich, Thomas
"Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes -- and How to Correct Them : Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics" 1999. (read 6/14/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on behavioral finance describing common psychological mistakes when investing. Small and fun to read. Excellent conclusion that sums up the lessons. Behavorial finance.
No index. No glossary. No notes. No bibliography.
Subjects: Finance, Personal -- Psychological aspects; Finance, Personal -- Decision making; Investments -- Decision making; Consumers -- Attitudes; Economics -- Psychological aspects.
Shefrin, Hersh, 1948-
"Beyond Greed and Fear : Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing" 2000. (read 6/8 - 6/13/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on the psychological behavior that people exhibit when investing. I prefer "Why Smart Money People Make Big Money Mistakes". "Beyond..." is more scholarly, bigger. Big bibliography. Behavioral finance.
Blackmore, Susan J., 1951-
"The Meme Machine" 1999. (read 6/6 - 6/13/2000)
Comments: Some interesting ideas in the beginning. But the examples of memes didn't captivate me, and didn't lend itself to interesting uses and insights.
Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-
"The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" 2000. (read 5/15 - 6/9/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on epidemics (in the general sense) and what causes them.
Lewis, Michael, 1937 Jan. 10-
"Altering Fate : Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future" 1997. (read 5/31 - 6/8/2000)
Comments: Captivating idea of pragmatic/contextualist model being more valid than organismic model.
Heller, Robert
"Warren Buffett : The Man Who Made Billioins with a Unique Investment Strategy" 2000. (read 6/6 - 6/8/2000)
Comments: Excellent book about Buffett and his philosophy. Well-written, simple, short.
Blackmore, Susan J., 1951-
"In Search of the Light : The Adventures of a Parapsychologist" 1986,1996. (read 6/5 - 6/6/2000)
Comments: Interesting. I like the writing style. Autobiographical story form.
Browne, Joy, 1944-
"The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life and the Eight Realities That Will Save You" 1998. (read 6/5/2000)
Comments: Skimmed. Good ideas, but didn't find it captivating. Didn't care for the way it's laid out. Too many stories, examples, Q and A's.
Postman, Neil
"How To Watch TV News" 1992. (read 6/1 - 6/2/2000)
Comments: Good book on TV news being motivated by commercial interests.
Flanagan, David
"Java in a Nutshell : A Quick Reference" 1999 (3rd edition). (read 5/31/2000)
Comments: Good introduction to Java. Haven't gotten into the reference part yet.
Lynch, Aaron
"Thought Contagion : How Belief Spreads Through Society" 1996. (read 5/30/2000)
Comments: About memes and memetics. Didn't grab me.
Postman, Neil
"The End of Education : Redefining the Value of School" 1995. (read 5/17/2000)
Comments: Good book about improving education, including the importance of defining the purpose of education.
Buffett, Mary and David Clark
"Buffettology : The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor" 1997. (read 5/9 - 5/18/2000)
Comments: Well-written book about Warren's techniques, written by Warren's former daughter-in-law Mary and Warren's friend David. Very readable -- written for the lay person. Good examples. Index. No bibliography.
Federal Aviation Administration
"Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) and Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)" 1997. (read 2/22-3/1/99; 3/8/99; 6/28/99-7/8/99; 7/26-7/30/99; 5/2/00)
Comments: Book of aviation regulations and information.
King, Tom
"The Operator : David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood" 2000. (read 04/27/2000)
Comments: Biography about multi-billionare David Geffen. Just started. Like it so far.
Illman, Paul E.
"The Pilot's Radio Communications Handbook" 1998 (5th edition). (read 03/15/99-03/16/99, 03/23/99; 7/2/99; 4/24/00)
Comments: Good book on radio communications for VFR and IFR private pilots.
Maranjian, Selena and Lewis, Roy A., E.A.
"The Motley Fool's Investment Tax Guide 2000" 2000. (read 04/19/2000)
Comments: Good guide on paying income taxes (IRA's, deductions, ...).
McCutcheon, Susan
"Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way" 1984,1996. (read 4/18/2000)
Comments: Book that is used in our Bradley natural childbirth course.
Graff, Dale
"River Dreams : The Case of the Missing General and Other Adventures in Psychic Research" 2000. (read 4/11/2000)
Comments: Good book on remote viewing. Graff headed the remote viewing project for the U.S. military. Has some good practical tips.
Zukav, Gary
"Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul : Meditations for Souls in Progress" 1994. (read 4/11/2000)
Comments: Some good quotes. Probably a good distillation of "Seat of the Soul".
Lewin, Roger and Regine, Birute
"The Soul at Work : Listen, Respond, Let Go : Embracing Complexity Science for Business Success" 2000. (read 03/22/2000)
Comments: Excellent book on business, management, and how complexity science shows how important relationships are.
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November 10, 2005

People I Know
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People I Know (by Robbie Bednark)
Created: 31 Aug 2005 Last updated: 04 Oct 2005
Here is a list of some people that I know. I put it in on the web as an invitation for people to contact me. Send me an email, I want to hear from you! :-)

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People I'm Looking For

Kevin Markowitz (attended SCSU around 1988-1993) Amy Smith (attended SCSU around 1989, worked at Little Dukes in St. Cloud around 1989-1990) Vusi Kumalo (attended SCSU around 1990-1994) Lizette Arndt (attended Harding Elementary School around 1975-1979) Ralph Weprinsky

People I've worked with at Buttweiler Janitorial, St. Cloud, MN, 1991-1992

People I've worked with at Perkins restaurant, downtown St. Cloud, MN

Jeff Tom Scherer Warren Charlotte "Char" Johnson Kari Jo Steege

People I've worked with at Little Dukes convenience store, St. Cloud, MN, 1989-1990

Amy Smith Shirley Theresa Dircks Mark Reimer John Turner

People I've worked with at St. Cloud city bus garage, 1989

Rick Iees Tony Kellen Gary Leyendecker Tripp Jody

People I've worked with at Com Squared Systems, 1992-1996

Johnson, Bonnie Bauman, Dave Hess, Joe Mooney, Jason Conrad, Donovan Halleen, Gary Dreissiger, Lynne Renshaw, Vicki Lindquist, Russ Jensen, Jim Kelvin Hintz, Tom Bieger, Bob Strawhacker, Lisa Tyler, Tom Reeg, David Monson, Jay Murphy, Linda Hathaway, Fred Schroers, David Van Den Bos, Catherine Marshall, Mike Nathan "Nate" Swaney, Joel Liu, Renkui Plautz, Josh Hammond, Paschal Li, Larry Nelson, Scott Delouche, Shawn Peck, Steve Smith, Ray Berman, Joe Mahmoodi, Nader Webb, Jack Groft, Derek Krutsch, Ken Anderson, Charles Wilson, Craig Vatalaro, Rob Wharton, Mike Wilson, Jeff Slocum, Scott Duffy, Laura Shore, Harold Butzer, Ben Kaiser, Tony Humenansky, Brian Benjamin, Earl Tracy, Tim Bednark, Rob Yee, Richard Halleen, Arlene Johnson, Dan Wilson, Carl Peters, Joanne Plautz, Kay Wilson, Laura Parker, Tricia Catheryn, Gail Stolberg, Leroy Braden, Brad Schmitz, Joe Zaepfel, Joseph Bergholtz, Bob Deen, Kirk Klem, Daan Solie, Sandra Randolph, John Doak, Brenda Huber, Madeleine Rinta, Karen Vand, Tony Ruona, Jean Atkins, Stephanie Maldonado, John Scholz, Cheryl Denley, Mike Mayer, Paul Swan, Robert Eitenmiller, Melissa Merchant, Catherine Helgeson, Shelly Wilmar, Kathy Bernie Chris Ernste, Renee Mason, Sharon Ostrum, Mark Plautz, Josh Anderson, Charles Bieger, Bob Collins, Ted Junes, Diane Larson, Joe McDowall, Steve Olson, Wayne PreviousEmployees:Development .. Austin, Kevin .. Christianson, Ivan .. Comstock, Jeff .. Gross, Ron .. Halabee, Masam .. Johnson, Chris .. Lucas, Scott .. McCarron, Shane .. Schumacher, Dale .. Tostenson, Eric "Walt" .. White, Jeff PreviousEmployees:SalesMarketing .. Lies, Don .. Palace, John .. Gale, Jerry .. Harder, Brad .. Boren, Jackie .. Kramer, Kay .. Guiney, Dee .. Sozinski, Larry .. Jonason, Buzz .. Thatcher, Mark .. Jim .. Bester, Joe .. Shenaker, Mark PreviousEmployees:CustomerService .. Jennifer .. Hooten, Bill .. Scott PreviousEmployees:Administration .. Katie

People I've worked with at Informix, 1996-2001

Alex Burkleaux Amanda Phelps Andreas Moran Andy Abel Anil Garg Art Rose Arvind Gupta Austin D'Costa Bill Madill Bingjie Miao Bob Johansen Bruce Jackson Carol Reichert Chandrasekhar Annamaneni Chantall Lowery Chris Franklin Chris Otos Cristina Draghicescu Clifford Jones Dale Favier Dan Aspenwall Dave Wolfe David Zimmermann Don Top Erik van Veen George Christian Glenn Case Greg Shipp Guy Bowerman Hanna Nelson Hanna Metzger Hyun Ju Vega Ian Ilsley Ibrahim Jaddo Irene Harrington Jack Rann Jack Yang Jackie Ryan James Sponaugle Jason Young Jeanne Gordon Jeff Treece Jennifer Burkholder Jim Seeger Jim Troisi John Britton John Lengyel John Matzka Jon Yeargers Josh Poulson Joydeep Buragohain Jun Shan Julie Coryell Keith Billings Karl Krasnowsky Kevin Beck Kevin Cherkauer Kris Sandwick Krishna Harathi Kyla Baird Kyle McEligot Lalitha Krishnamoorthy Lauri Sippel Lillian Hull Liping Zhang Loren Popescu Manoj Kumar Negi Manu Adusumilli Marcia Lyons Margaret Bengry Mark Heller Mark White Martine Wedlake Mary Ratcliff Mary Ann Dranchak Matthew Bishop Meenakshi Rao Meg Hilbert Michael Loftus Michelle Liu Mihail Blaj Mohan Natraj Muthu Muthiah Nancy Carlson Naresh Chainani Kishin Nelson Yuk Nick Desachy Nikki Collins Ninad Palsule Noam Atzom - Applicom Pamela Johnson Patricia Terzian Paul Brett Pierre Regazzoni Prasad Vara Radhika Reddy Rahul M Dhuvad Ricardo Pincheira Richard Wozniak Ritu Mehta Rob Bednark Rob Roy Robert Grant Robert Hotchkiss Rohit Krishna Prasad Ross Hagglund Sanjay Singh Sarah Goodwin Scott Fadden Scott Lashley Scott Newton Seona Bell Shawn Dagg Shekar Ramakrishnan Sheldon Kershner Sharon Thompson Srinath Duvuru Srinivasan M .R. Stephen Swanson Steve Correl Steve Pearson Steven M. Ginn Steven Miller Subram Natarajan Sudhir Rao Susan Mesch Tamara Hayes Tania Fort Zirn Ted Slupesky Tess Stewart Tido Pesenti Tiffany Smith Todd Bates Todd Brown Thomas Carlier Tom Clark Tom Knorr Tony Alabi Tony Daniel Veena Prasad Vijay M. Sarathy Vincent K Vipul Paul Wanchuan Zhang Xiaoyin Li Yanping Cao Yuke Zhuge Zhaohui Gao Dan Simchuk Jason Marrow John Epperly Thor Culverhouse Diane Bradford Volker Gros Andreas Weininger Ashok Maske Chris Kramar Mary Beam Rajesh Thakur Srikanth "Srik" Raghavan Thu Nguyen Randy Tighe Michael Hill Hui Liao John Celona David Lai Ravi Pachipala Rob Roy Louis Tarnay Deborah Sellmeyer Shailesh Gupta Deanne Stewart Arthur Tsoi Wen Yani Christian Kasperbauer Corey Schroeder Hanns-Jochen Stephani Eric Scheible Jim Nabors Ellen Reys Shalab Goel Justin Du Manoj Haveri Sarma Peyyeti Judith Sherwood Charu Rudrakshi F. David Hammer Kiran Achyutuni Suresh Yanamadala Bin Zhou David Mullins Weiren Ding Foster Curry Ajay Dawar Sanjay Kshetramade Mary Fitzpatrick Sumanth Rajagopal Shankar Bora Jaya Chitti Bill Keller Chris Berg Nilesh Junnarkar Jingmin He Parag Kulkarni Deanne Stewart Roger Raphael Ananta Senapati Craig Bair Srini Subra Sai Kumar Cunchala Shunmugam Sundar Kelly Gardner Kawarjit Bedi Maury Tiller Venky Renganathan Tingjian Ge Shivdutt Jha Peter Lam Katrina Poon Zelaine Fong John Pursch Michael Williams Guy Bowerman Anjul Bhambhri Jeffrey James Jonita Bigelow Helene Tur George Manning Omkar Nimbalkar Mike Dichiser Krishna Prasad Doddi Steven Taylor John Redmond Dave Desautels Chi-Ju Wu Ajay Kumar Moluguru Raviraj Murdeshwar Henry Choi Kelly Hardaway Tess Wong Mike Frear Anita Chung D.S. Hariharan (Hari) Del Blevins Jonathan Leffler Charlie Bowen Chris Golledge Emily Vesely Margot Lind Matt Wahoff Grant Stephens Daniel Wood Enrique Macaraeg Matthew Funk Martha Schraer Shirley Li Rexrode Lynn Felise Jeff Wolff Paula Cushing Nicole Niederer Rob Wilson Jim Buchalski Mark Scranton Mary Mauler Gail Justice Marc Wilson John Rutledge Boyton Jones Justine DeCosta Kari Mclagan Paula Cushing Brenda Secrest Jacob Chandy Melinda Kitchen Janice Stephenson Pat Fletcher Alice Chan Bruce Irvin Connie Lacey Dan Johnson Dave Clay Gary Kelley Hannes Spintzik Jerry Bortvedt Kathryn Gruenefeldt Keith Kelleman Lance Zaklan Mark Callaghan Mark Nelson Sharon Malek Sanket Atal Chuck O'Donnell Evan Hall Bill Tracy Jeff Cole Brian Weygandt Michael Stanford Beau Bozarth Corey Mason Doug Sanderson Dave Leslie Don Watson Frank Symonds Thomas Gabrysch George Dolbier Frank Glandorf Gerald Ingalls Howshinn Fann Holly Deiser Roy Ivankoe Jaap Vermeulen Rao Jawadi Jim Battan Kay Courtney Kelly Whiteley Lynne Zhang Vivek Maganty MaryBeth Piccirilli Mary Meredith Karin Milliken Marianne Ryder Mi Dove Najma Sultana Prakash Sundaresan Ram Nori Randy King Ray Parise Stu Farnham Tipin Ben Chang Tom Wells Vikram Lall Edith P. Medley Sreenivas Gukal Greg Kilgore Vadi M. Vadivepillai Diane Davison Rajkumar Irudayaraj Moses Elias Tom Parslow Nick Talbott Karen Wilson Robert DiFalco Lew Montague Jon Richards Mirek Sztajno James Mead Graham Peace Christy Bailey Vikram Vij Chendong Zou Howard Abrams Praveen Sharma Marc Frommer Sugu Venkatasamy Phillip Miller Mike Eggers Shanthi Ramakrishnan Andrew Bishop Bruce Johnson Jeff Comer Ron Ebersole Ken Brown Sid Kitchel Michael O'Hair Pathik Patel Ralph Weprinsky Steve Hemminger Scott Shurts Sierra Sponaugle Gil Moskowitz Guy Gascoigne-Piggford Linda Duchek Sanjay Dubey Roger Demuth Alice Morton Pat Doyle Greg Raymond Sameer Mahajan Dan Miles Randy Heffner Joe Bonasera Al Lau Theja Rajakumar Lee Thomas Russell Clapp Lynne Bevens Ross Derrod Peter Nelson Jon Wasserman Luigi Schiavo Dennis Ortega Wes Wagner Konduru Rajakumar Vijay "Raji" Gopalakrishnan Vern Wigant Kean Stump Pamela Connell Tony Petrossian Alan Gates Shamsunder Mysore Chris Ediger Mark Morgan Kathy Eckardt Cheryl Van Hee Steve Weick Bill Hostmann Jim Switzer Sean Rutherford Brad Roberts Jeff Glickman Jana Brehm Shekhar Mahadevan Linh Ngo Nanci Saunders Trent Fisher James Cho Brad Andersen John Whiteman Dalila Cohen Ed Menze David Chamness F. Bob Hanson Daniel Krivulka Debra Leung Jeff Krenek Bob Gerber Murali Krishna Craig Freedman Jeff Weigel Michael Costa Catherine Decker Jeff Hesemann Reed Sheard Tim Rutherford Pat Kostol Dylan Rossario Kathleen Burns Roger Mitchell Eric Renkema Matthew Krueger Dimitry Fain Itzik Pailis Slava Krigman David W. Dougherty Susan Schwartz

People I've worked with at IBM

Aaron Amauba Alicia Adair Arun Batish Barbara Bloomer, Barb Bloomer Charles Rankin David Bender Ferdows Mehregani Ganesha Beedubail Heather Nebel, Heather MacPherson Jeff Ozvold Joseph Morabito, Joe Morabito Malahal Naineni Mark VanDerVeer Matt Krill, Matthew Krill Michael Burns, Mike Burns Paul McKenney Russ Weight Sanjay Gandhi Sharon Lucas Steven Berman, Steve Berman Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Suka Bhattiprolu Tejas Bhise Tom Malone Tuan Tran Vikas Ahluwalia Wayne Boyer

People I know from Bednark Manufacturing, Bednark Industries, Designer Wood Products, 1970-1990

People I know from around Harding, Pierz, Lastrup, and Hillman, Minnesota

Gerry Wass Ralph Wagnitz

People I went to College with (St. Cloud State University (SCSU), St. Cloud, Minnesota)

Chris Davis

Professors I had or knew in college (St. Cloud State University (SCSU), St. Cloud, Minnesota)

Dr. Anthony Buhl Dr. A. Downes Dr. Bryant Julstrom Dr. John Dienhardt Dr. Larry Grover Dr. Roney Dr. Teresa Fisher Dr. Zoa Rockenstein

People I went to High School with (Pierz Healy High School, Pierz, Minnesota)

My class: Amy Bednar, Amy Kowalzek Amy Tschida Andy Winzenburg, Andrew Winzenburg Barb Vandenheuval Brenda Cheney Brenda Matlock Brian Meyer Brian Schmidtbauer Cathy Burggraff Cindy Stangl Colette Vanderpoel Cory Litke Craig Boser Damian Schlegel Danny Stich Dan Henigan Darrel Saehr David Loidolt Dean Dahmen Dean Mikelson Debbie Zapzalka Denise Poster Douglas J. Boser, Doug Boser Douglas L. Boser, Doug Boser Eileen Schmitdz Eric Jensen Gina Virnig Greg Oldakokski Heidi Fischer Howie Schomer, Howard Schomer Jane Sand Janice Marshik Jason Virnig Jason Waytashek Jeff Milner Jenny Pawlu Jill Marshik Jill Seelen, Jill Loch Joe Mischke Joe Schommer Joel Jorgensen John O'Neil John Scoles John Welle Jon Loidolt Joyce Meyer Julie Tomala Julie Fischer Katie McGuire Kay Happke Kay Leidenfrost Ken Kowalzek Kevin Nordmann Kurt Brixius Kari Andres Kevin Dobis Kim Gall Larry Okroi Lisa Geiger Lucy Langer Lynn Marshik Lynn Smude Margie Eich, Margaret Eich Mark Langer Melissa Kloss Mike Haney Mike Parsons Nancy Girtz Nancy Meyer Perry Herold Pete Przybilla Peter Tharaldson Pam Block Renata Seppelt Rene Sitzman Renee Kowalzek Rhonda Boser, Rhonda Litke Robbie Bednark, Robert Bednark, Rob Bednark Robert Riddle Roger Pohlkamp Ronnie Monson, Ron Monson, Ronald Monson Ruth Dorn Sara (Block) Bednark Sandy Andres, Sandy Gross Scott Gross Scott Pappenfus Scott Rudolph Sharon Welle Sheila Girtz, Sheila Funk Shelly Malinowski Steve Happke Steve Lochner Steve Milner Steve Poster Sue Happke Sue Woitalla Tash Michaels Ted Kasper Tina Tretter Todd K. Meyer, Todd Meyer Todd W. Meyer, Todd Meyer Tom Hayes Tom Schraut Tom Stumpf Tom Warzecha Tracey Block Wes Winscher

Class 1 year before me:
Dean Rocheleau Diane Walz John Skochenski Kurt Litke Melissa Hircock

Class 1 year after me:
Kurt Olson Melanie Hircock Sara Litke

Teachers/staff I had or knew in High School (Pierz Healy High School, Pierz, Minnesota)

Mr. James Kapsner (math) Mr. Alan Doty (social studies) Mrs. Joyce Lorentzen (math) Mr. Fiedler (science) Mr. Gerion Palo (science) Mr. Jon Swenson (science) Mr. Larry Hoff (science) Mr. Nelson Mrs. Doty (English) Mr. Horst Hanneken (English) Mr. Gerry Wass (sub, Alpha) Mrs. Johnson (English) Mr. Mark Sederquist (English) Mr. Gerry Wolters (music) Mr. Bruce Pederson (music) Mrs. Huseth (Home Economics) Mrs. Fiedler (Home Economics) Mr. Rey Zimney (Business)

People I went to High School with (Coronado High School, Scottsdale, Arizona)

John Witherspoon Tim Corrigan

Teachers/staff from my grade school (Harding Elementary School, Harding, Minnesota)

Mrs. Hildegard Bujalski (Kindergarten) Mrs. Janson Mrs. Preimesberger Mrs. Lucille Knopik Mrs. Pat Rebischke Mrs. Doris Thyen Mrs. Ardyce Newman Mrs. Kuschell Clara Valentine (bus driver) Bud Knopik (bus driver) Jerry Skwira (bus driver) Dan Kozulla (bus driver) Ruth Norberg (office)

People I went to Grade School with (Harding Elementary School, Harding, Minnesota)

Dave Parker Janelle Lentner Jeff Gallagher L... (lived by Gerry Wass) Lizette Arndt Shaye Venzel Wade Jacobsen

Neighbors from Eastmont Drive / Shady Lane

Roland and Alvera Franceschi Rob and Patsy Sturdevant Belinda and Ty Simmons Dave Smale Robert and Ellen Schouten Stewart and Bernadette Hathaway Kurt and Debbie Krichko Doug and Chris McKay Jon and Bobby Crew Mike and Peggy Estes Bonnie Jeppson Nicolopolauses Joel and Cindy Mumford Charles "Chuck" and Melody Mello Jan Botsford Monte and Jan Miller Pittons Marv Mark Bourgois Robert "Bob" McGinnis Sue and Dave Fisher Sparks TR and Holly

Portland, OR

Robert Kaneko Wendy Kaneko

Minneapolis, MN

Julie O'Connell - NYCOR (Com Squared)

Other Bednarks

BEDNARK Insurance Agency BEDNARK Insurance Agency Inc. Auto Insurance Home Term Life Health ... Bednark Insurance Agency Inc. Find and compare insurance rates on auto home health and term life in Florida, FL. ... Name: Bednark Insurance Agency Inc. ... http://www.trustmymechanic.com/insurance/7439.html 7/11/2004 8/24/2004 CHRISTOPHER Bednark Auto Insurance in Florida FL Christopher Bednark Find Auto Insurance in Florida. Get the address and phone number of Christopher Bednark Get a free insurance quote. ... Bednark, Angela - softball player born Sept 4, 1982 daughter of Stephen and Marcia Bednark majoring in fitness and health promotion hometown: Prospect, KY Bednark, Christopher 8/24/2004 CHRISTOPHER Bednark Auto Insurance in Florida FL Christopher Bednark Find Auto Insurance in Florida. Get the address and phone number of Christopher Bednark Get a free insurance quote. ... Bednark, David J. ACTIVE Duty Lynwood Herald - Lynwood,WA,USA ... Army Private David J. Bednark has been deployed to Iraq with the 215th Forward Support Battalion, 1st Calvary Division. He is the ... Bednark, Eleanor Sivia (Hill) - died at age 87 on 13 Feb 2004 in Centerville, MA; lifelong resident of Barnstable, MA [http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/02-13-04-news/BK_obits.html] Bednark, Jeff 6/14/2004 STATION 9 Station 9. Jeff Bednark. I was born and raised in Yerington, Nevada. I am currently a senior and this is my first year in the DNA class. ... http://www.lyon.k12.nv.us/dna_project/Group%20bio/station_9.htm Bednark, James - New Hampshire senator (college senator?) 10/28/2004 UNH SAFC Funding Campus Fun James Bednark Chairman. http://www.unh.edu/safc/Chair.html Bednark, Jerry 11/11/2004 Mid-Airs from 1987 to 2004 ... Jerry Bednark John Jenness Q5N060488 Tony Streff Q5C091788 Al Schwartz Q5C070889 Art Smith Q5N080689 Ron Gage Q5N091893 Andy Nehring Q5N082794 Randy Etken ... http://www.ncplracing.org/PDF/MidAirs%201987-2004.pdf Bednark, Jim - senior vice president at Wells Fargo bank http://www.oregonlive.com/metrosouthwest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_southwest_news/1090324800208900.xml> 7/22/2004 Bednark, Joe - 9/9/2004 CHEBOYGAN Tribune Cheboygan Daily Tribune - Cheboygan,MI,USA ... shot a 53. Joe Bednark of Onaway shot a 46, Reuben Cope a 48, Pat Schaedig carded a 52 and Justin Hogan shot a 60. The Hornets next ... 22 Sep 2004: 'DOGS beat Cardinals Cheboygan Daily Tribune (subscription) - Cheboygan,MI,USA ... rounded out the field with 50 strokes. The Cardinals lowest shooter was Joe Bednark with a 42. Pat Schaedig had a 54, Justin Mason ... 5 Oct 2004: Inland Lakes captures Ski Valley golf title Petoskey News-Review - Petoskey,Michigan,USA ... Others earning all-league were Tyler Munroe, Central Lake; Chris Doherty, Mancelona; Joe Bednark, Onaway; and Josh Lockman, Mancelona. http://www.petoskeynews.com/articles/2004/10/05/sports/local_regional/sports02.txt Bednark, Julie - graduate of University of Michigan-Dearborn Julie Bednark St. Cloud schools ask: spring break or early out? St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud,MN,USA ... "As days painfully go on in June, the warm weather, we just want to go outside and start summer," said Julie Bednark, an eighth-grader who will attend South ... http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+834269 [29 Aug 2005] Bednark, Marcie 10/1/2004: At Hyannis pub, plenty to debate Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA ... "I think (Bush) looks a little defensive," said bartender Marcie Bednark of Centerville, midway through the debate. ... Bednark poured a few more $1.50 drafts. ... http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/athyannis1.htm Bednark, Miss 11/19/2004 Miss Bednark's Second Grade Stars Miss Bednark's Second Grade Stars. Kortland. Michael. Courtney. Liza. ... Book Adventure. The Democracy Project. Check out Miss Bednark's MCOATT award-winning website ... http://web.westbloomfield.k12.mi.us/ealy/bednark04/index2.html Bednark, Tom - Barnstable Bat Co. http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=41068 7/20/2004 Bednark, Wayne F. Wayne F. Bednark, 51 Auto body repairman; lifelong Hyannis resident HYANNIS - Wayne F. Bednark, 51, died Saturday at Boston Medical Center. He was the husband of Anita Altonen Bednark. Mr. Bednark was born in Hyannis and a graduate of Barnstable High School. From the age of 16, he has worked as an auto body repairman. He worked at Pentti's and Buckler's Auto Body Shops. Besides his wife, survivors include a daughter, Cara Bednark of Hyannis; his parents, Francis and Catherine (Long) Bednark of Hyannis; two brothers, Greg Bednark of Marstons Mills and Scott Bednark of Mashpee; and a sister, Karen Bryant of South Yarmouth. He was the father of the late Michael Gould and Nicole Bednark. Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at John-Lawrence Funeral Home, 3778 Falmouth Road (Route 28), Marstons Mills. A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Francis Xavier Church, South Street, Hyannis. Burial is in St. Francis Cemetery, Centerville. Memorial donations may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Cape Cod, 270 Communication Way, Hyannis, MA 02601. http://www.capecodonline.com/archives/7days/wed/obit.htm

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The farmer's market is dominated by blossoms and greens, but the Bednarek family from Princeton offers a different color: red meat. ... http://portage.scwn.com/articles/2004/05/20/news/news1.txt Bednarek, Andrew Mark - 5/4/2004; North Whales, UK; drunk driving arrest; http://icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=14208329&method=full&siteid=50142&headline=driver-four-times-over-the-legal-limit-name_page.html Bednarek, Andrew - 5/23/2004 CHIMERAS and Bynoe victorious Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... Reliever Andrew Bednarek worked out of bases-loaded jams in the sixth and seventh innings, preserving sixth-seeded Ocean City's 10-8 victory at No. ... http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/high_school/8736363.htm Bednarek, Andrew 5/5/2004 Avalon, NJ (Cape May, NJ newspaper) borough administrator 5/19/2004 http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/index.cfm?CID=news_view&Section_ID=1&News_ID=1151 12/21/2004 Avalon won't 'Roll Over' In Library Flap County Cape May County Herald - Cape May,NJ,USA ... Covington attended the monthly meeting of the county Library Commission on Dec.15, along with Avalon Administrator Andrew Bednarek, Avalon Library Director ... http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/index.cfm?CID=news_view&Section_ID=1&News_ID=1394 Bednarek, Andy 11/14/2004 CWS 1114 Pointer Roundup Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids,WI,USA ... He placed just 2 seconds behind champion John LeRoy of UW-Oshkosh. Andy Bednarek was 13th (24:43) and Mike Ormond was 26th (24:58). ... http://www.wisinfo.com/dailytribune/wrdtsports/285804023067112.shtml 11/21/2004 CWS UWSP roundup Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids,WI,USA ... Andy Bednarek was 58th overall in 25:35 and Mike Ormond was 92nd in 25:54. Adam Bucholz was 117th in 26:09 and Josh Kujawa was 170th in 26:47. ... http://www.wisinfo.com/dailytribune/wrdtsports/283412518812038.shtml Bednarek, Brian Mt. Carmel's Bednarek, Beecher's Darling complete fine seasons Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA ... Carmel senior golfer Brian Bednarek feels he is just getting started. "I look at it as my golf career is just beginning," Bednarek said. ... http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/10/06/sports/illinois_prep_sports/21ecd1655041ce2a86257091007eb629.txt [6 Oct 2005] Bednarek, Bridget Cardinals take down Bulldogs Cheboygan Daily Tribune (subscription) - Cheboygan,MI,USA ... Angie Norman hit six points, Ashlee Bishop added five points, Holly Nolde and Serena Green each with four and Bridget Bednark putting up two points. ... http://www.cheboygannews.com/articles/2005/10/07/news/sports/sportsa.txt [7 Oct 2005] Bednarek, Bob 8/22/2004 PREP Scoreboard Indiana South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA ... SINGLES: 1. Danny Tzanetakos (H) beat Sid Mehta(C) 6-4,6-4; 2. Brandon Kitchell (H) beat Sam Bauer (C) 4-6,6-2,6-0; 3. Bob Bednarek (C) beat Zach Kikalos. ... Bednarek, Bobby SJ outlasts Clay; Riley tops Washington South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA ... This time, history seemed poised to repeat itself almost perfectly as the No. 2 singles players Bobby Bednarek from Clay and Tommy Krcmaric from St. ... http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/09/30/sports.20050930-sbt-MARS-C1-SJ_outlasts_Clay__Ri.sto [2 Oct 2005] Bednarek, Charles A. - 5/23/2004 BUCKS County real estate transactions Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... 1008 2d Ave Estate of Pasquale Mazzanti to Raymond McHugh, $65,000. 622 Harris Ave Charles A Bednarek to Karen McGinley, $190,000. ... http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/home/8719200.htm Bednarek, Chuck 8 Oct 2004: Leavenworth native comes home to tape show Leavenworth Times - Leavenworth,KS,USA ... his hometown. Chuck Bednarek, an executive with Amp TV, the company Brown works for, convinced him to host the show. "The whole ... http://www.leavenworthtimes.com/articles/2004/10/08/news/news03.txt Bednarek, Daniel 12/3/2004 New system reduces risk of burns during interventional X-rays EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA ... tracking of actual radiation levels on the skin, providing both instantaneous dose rate, as well as cumulative exposure," explained Daniel Bednarek, Ph.D., UB ... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/uab-nsr120304.php Reducing radiation burns University at Buffalo Reporter - Buffalo,NY,USA ... of actual radiation levels on the skin, providing both instantaneous dose rate, as well as cumulative exposure," explained Daniel Bednarek, project director ... [Jan 2005] Bucknell Men's Tennis Completes Day Two of Action at Connecticut ... BucknellBison.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... Orange, Calif./Canyon) won his two events of the day to advance to the semi-final match in the singles Flight B, while freshman Daniel Bednarek (Haworth, NJ ... http://bucknellbison.collegesports.com/sports/m-tennis/recaps/100105aab.html [2 Oct 2005] Pawlenty coming to send off soldiers Sauk Centre Herald - Sauk Center,MN,USA ... Troops being deployed include: Ron Aamodt, Jon Anderson, Daniel Bednarek, Scott Bielke, Christopher Berg, Christopher Berger, Robert Bleninger Jr., Calvin ... http://www.saukherald.com/Main.asp?SectionID=12&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=5504 [27 Sep 2005] Bednarek, Dawid/David - Austin, TX - 4/22/2004 - Texas State Bobcats baseball catcher New faces fill Texas State baseball squad San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos,TX,USA ... SLC selection last season. Senior Nolan Mast returns at second base and junior Dawid Bednarek is back at catcher. Anson is one of ... [Feb 2005] Bednarek, Don 5/8/2004 IMAGINATIVE home: An artist's outlook The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA ... Even today, Fox and her longtime partner, Don Bednarek, take great pleasure in the holiday atmosphere that the original cottage exudes. ... http://www.madison.com/captimes/features/stories/73867.php Bednarek, Diane 23 Sep 2004 BATTLE Island Inn Oswego County Business Magazine - Oswego,NY,USA ... Diane Bednarek acquired the Battle Island Inn Bed and Breakfast, located on state Route 48 between the cities of Fulton and Oswego. in late May. ... http://www.oswegocountybusiness.com/issue74/74Battle.html Bednarek, Emil - 4/28/2004 PART 2The accused: Henchmen acting under orders World Socialist ... into their victims hearts. Operative detainees Emil Bednarek and Alois Staller had killed fellow detainees. Death trains began ... Bednarek, Erin - Holden, MA - 4/17/2004 - news article Bednarek, Col J. Michael 6/14/2004 509TH prepares to enter war for the first time since World War II Leesville Daily Leader - Leesville,LA,USA ... Reviewing officer Col. J. Michael Bednarek ended the ceremony by saying, "Deploy forward for thou are in the Lord's graces. Stay ... http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/articles/2004/06/13/news/news1.txt Bednarek, Diane CCC Part-time Dean's List, Spring Semester 2004 Oswego Daily News - Oswego,NY,USA ... Fulton: Suzanne J. Acquaviva, *Angela M. Allen, *Diane M. Bednarek, Veronica L. Blandford, Jennifer J. Bray, *Leshonda L. Brown, Suzanne L. Burdick, *Tamara M ... 6/17/2004 Bednarek, Frank REDEVELOPING mall site may take 10-plus years Muskegon Chronicle - Muskegon,MI,USA ... Downtown Muskegon Development consultant Frank Bednarek said the site plan will be developed soon and decisions on zoning will be made with city officials. ... 6/17/2004 'Save Owasippe' effort to be led by ex-county head Muskegon Chronicle - Muskegon,MI,USA Former Muskegon County Administrator Frank Bednarek will lead the charge when members of a group that wants to save Owasippe Scout Reservation meet with the ... [Jan 2005] Bednarek, Heidi 12/3/2004 WHERE WE LIVE: Wixom, Oakland County Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA ... sense of community. "You'll be able to bike down there, walk down there, shop," says Heidi Bednarek RE/MAX 100 in Novi. And there's ... http://www.freep.com/realestate/renews/hood3e_20041203.htm Bednarek, Army Colonel John M. 1 Sep 2004: REALISTIC scenarios offer soldiers 'last opportunity to get it ... Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA ... It's gray. There's nothing black and white out here," said Col. JM Bednarek, commander of the training center's operations group, which designs the exercises. ... http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0904/01irroles.html 23 Sep 2004: GENERAL Officer Announcements Defenselink.mil - USA ... Army Col. John M. Bednarek has been nominated for promotion to the rank of brigadier general. Bednarek is currently serving as the ... http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20040923-1315.html 28 Sep 2004: PRESIDENT nominates Bednarek for General Leesville Daily Leader - Leesville,LA,USA ... J. Michael Bednarek, commander of the Joint Readiness Training Center Operations Group. ... "There is no soldier more deserving of this than Mick Bednarek. ... http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/articles/2004/09/28/news/news2.txt Bednarek, James III 11/9/2004 "BlahBlahLove Songs For The New Millenium" Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA ... James Bednarek III -- Machinery Repairman 3 rd Class (guitar) (solo: "We're Not Gonna Take It", "I Wanna Rock"), age: 27 from Racine , WI . ... http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=28970 Bednarek, Jamie 11/21/2004 Jamie Bednarek Mr. Bednarek, after graduating from Lord Botetourt High School in 1995, went on to earn his BS in Education, Health, and Driver's Education. ... http://www.roanoke.k12.va.us/schools/brta/brta/jamie_bednareck.htm Bednarek, Jen Vo-tech students take part in SkillsUSA competition Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA ... Kirsten Hinton, CIT. Technical Computer Applications -- Jen Bednarek and Stephanie Arroyo, MCTI; Kathleen Winans, CIT. Web Design ... [Feb 2005] Bednarek, Jim 6/11/2004 TAKE 5 for 6-11-04 Journal Times Online - Racine,WI,USA ... Jill Dahl and Jim Bednarek play at the North Beach Oasis, 100 Kewaunee St., (North Beach off Michigan Boulevard) from 6 to 9:30 pm It's free and musicians and ... http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2004/06/11/local_entertainment/iq_2929626.txt Bednarek, Jon 19 Sep 2004: SYRACUSE bests Cincinnati, 19-7 Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA Jon Bednarek kicked a school-record 51-yard field goal and the Quakers held the Fighting Muskies to 87 yards of total offense in a win in the Ohio Conference ... 19 Sep 2004: WILMINGTON 17, Muskingum 5 Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA NEW CONCORD, Ohio - Jon Bednarek kicked a school-record 51-yard field goal and Wilmington held Muskingum to 87 yards of total offense in a 17-5 win Saturday in ... 19 Sep 2004: MID-AMERICAN, Ohio roundup Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA ... Wilmington 17, Muskingum 5: At New Concord, Jon Bednarek kicked a school-record 51-yard field goal and Wilmington held Muskingum to 87 yards of total offense. ... Bednarek, Jonathan Bruce POW Bio PAGE of SCOPE SYSTEMS. BEDNAREK, JOHNATHAN BRUCE Remains Returned December 1988 Name: Johnathan Bruce Bednarek Rank/Branch: O2/US Air Force Unit: 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron, Da ... Bednarek, Joseph Digital Portfolio: Joseph A. Bednark http://people05.albion.edu/JAB14/dp/academic.htm [2 Oct 2005] Bednarek, Kaitlin 16 Oct 2004 Sprague, West Salem play to a 1-1 tie Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA West Salem sophomore midfielder Kaitlin Bednarek tied the game with a goal in the 67th minute. ... "I was in the right spot at the right time," Bednarek said. ... http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=88402 Bednarek, Linda 11/5/2004 Creative craftsmen display their wares at annual show Annapolis Trident - Annapolis,MD,USA ... Linda Bednarek, publicity chairman for the Naval Academy Women's Club, says that the show likes crafters like Stephene. "She does ... http://www.dcmilitary.com/navy/trident/9_40/features/31958-1.html Bednarek, Luke 12/3/2004 PMI Education Foundation Announces 2004 Scholarship Winners Yahoo News (press release) - USA ... PMI Fellows Scholarship William Moylan (Endowed by the Project Management Institute) Cappella University PMI Founder Scholarship Luke Bednarek (Endowed by the ... http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041203/phf002_1.html Bednarek, Marc 5/5/2004 "A Reliable Message Delivery Protocol for Mobile Agents."; http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Bednarek:Marc.html Bednarek, Maria 12/20/2004 Slots Sell Like Hotcakes KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA ... But these machines took tokens only and are intended for entrainment in people's homes. And that's just fine with Maria Bednarek of Salt Lake City. ... http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=139864 Bednarek, Martin - Philadelphia - School reform commission member 12/2/2004 Vallas, Street stand firm in first showdown Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... Commission member Martin Bednarek, who was appointed to the commission by Street, said yesterday that he continued to support the mayor's position rather than ... http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/cities_neighborhoods/philadelphia/10316425.htm 12/4/2004 Vallas sticks to his guns on police in schools Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... Two of five school commission members - Sandra Dungee Glenn and Martin Bednarek, both appointed by Mayor Street - said this week that they opposed Vallas ... http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/cities_neighborhoods/philadelphia/10335525.htm Bednarek, Marty - 5/20/2004 CONTRACTOR offers to paint Phila. school for free Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... I wouldn't want my kid going there every day," commission member Marty Bednarek said as he looked at pictures of the school presented by Harris. ... http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/cities_neighborhoods/philadelphia/8707538.htm Bednarek, Michael 5/9/2004 GOLDSCHMIDT story headline draws fire from many readers Oregonian - Portland,OR,USA ... Reader Michael Bednarek of Southwest Portland and others said they thought the story gave too much weight to what Goldschmidt said and how he characterized ... http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/public_editor/index.ssf?/base/editorial/1084017864220270.xml - 5/20/2004 SRC renews Perzel charter Philadelphia Daily News (subscription) - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... He and SRC member Michael Bednarek, a banker, said New Foundations and other charter schools had been forced to ally themselves with a nonprofit because banks ... http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/8709888.htm MICHAEL D. Bednarek, Partner Michael D. Bednarek, Partner. ... Michael Bednarek has been on the leading edge of significant trends in the patent field for more than 20 years. http://www.shawpittman.com/_989kmusp68hin6orid5o78qbfdppg_.nsf/0/85256ddc007ee321852568cf0053e520?OpenDocument 7/20/2004 8/19/2004 TIGARD-TUALATIN district will seek school levy renewal on fall ... Oregonian - Portland,OR,USA ... Michael Bednarek, a Washington County parent, pulled his two children out of public schools this year to send them to the private St. Anthony School. ... 9/27/2004 WEEKEND sports two festivals to attend Springfield News Sun - Springfield,OH,USA ... Youngsters must go to the Airport Club House with a parent or guardian to register for a flight between 3 and 6 pm For information, call Michael Bednarek at 438 ... http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/hp/content/news/stories/2004/09/26/sns0926festivaladvance1B.html 12/25/2004 Small Company Is Specializing in Suing Banks New York Times - USA ... "Obviously, no one has a patent that covers all checks or processing," said Michael D. Bednarek, an intellectual property lawyer who was once an examiner at ... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/25/business/25patent.html 12/25/2004 Small Company Is Specializing in Suing Banks Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA ... "Obviously, no one has a patent that covers all checks or processing," said Michael D. Bednarek, an intellectual property lawyer who was once an examiner at ... http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041225/ZNYT01/412250338 (many posts by Michael Bednarek in newsgroups) Bednarek, Army Col. Mick 5 Sept 2004: ROBERTSON awarded two medals for wounds suffered while in battle ... Leesville Daily Leader - Leesville,LA,USA ... Robertson) and those men like him as proof of the commitment and sacrifice being made by our Army and our nation," Col. Mick Bednarek said in remark. "Lt. ... http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/articles/2004/09/05/news/news1.txt Bednarek, Mike "Buster" - clown; 5/4/2004; http://www.webclowns.com/buster/ Bednarek, Mike 5/31/2004 FACES & PLACES Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA ... Palatine-based Concord Homes promoted Mike Bednarek to vice president of residential construction from production manager, and named Bill French director of ... MSUM Hall adds six In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA ... weekend. John Alin, Mike Bednarek, Robert Fielder, Renee Olson Holland, Rick Stuyvesant and Mark Waldera will be honored Oct. 8 ... [2 Oct 2005] http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=104478§ion=Sports Dragon hall adds six In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA Mike Bednarek relates his success in the construction industry to lessons he learned playing football and basketball at Minnesota State Moorhead. ... http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=104961§ion=Sports [6 Oct 2005] Yorkville clubhouse, pools make a splash Chicago Sun-Times - United States ... clubhouse played a big role in their decision to purchase at Raintree Village, so they've been very anxious to see it open," said Mike Bednarek, president of ... http://www.suntimes.com/output/hlife/hof-news-digest07w.html [6 Oct 2005] Bednarek, Monika 12/23/2004 M. Bednarek Fakultt Fcher Anglistik/Amerikanistik Englische Sprachwissenschaft Publikationen M. Bednarek M. Bednarek. Publikationen von Monika Bednarek. ... http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/anglistik/sprachwissenschaft/publikationen/M__Bednarek/ Bednarek, Morgan - softball player; Nags Head, NC; 4/24/2004; http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2004/04/24/sports/2prep.txt Bednarek, Philippe 6/11/2004 ATLAS outfit ties up with BSNL Sify - Delhi,India ... According to Philippe Bednarek, Chairman of the Atlas Group, "Our aim is to converge telephony with Internet and television content in India, where the ... http://sify.com/finance/equity/fullstory.php?id=13495544 6/10/2004 ATLAS Interactive Delivers TV Through Phone Lines in India Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... Philippe Bednarek, Chairman of the Atlas Group, comments: "Indian audiences have previously experienced unreliable television networks and Internet dial-up. ... http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040610005396&newsLang=en Piotr Bednarek 15 year old discoverer Radio Polonia - Poland Piotr Bednarek, a 15 year old boy from Central Polish city of Czestochowa discovered a planetoid. The boy analysed photographs of ... http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=27286&j=2 [9 Sep 2005] Starry-eyed teen finds planet News24 - South Africa ... In September fellow-Polish high school student Piotr Bednarek, also 15, was recognised for finding NEO 2005 QK76 and belonging to the Apollo group of small ... http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_1816656,00.html [13 Oct 2005] Bednarek, Robert - 5/17/2005 People on the Move Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA ... THE SPACE FOUNDATION: Added Robert Bednarek and Alexis Livanos to its board of directors. SKYETEK INC.: Appointed Rob Balgley to chairman and chief executive. ... http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_2737042 SES Global executive vice president - seen in Google news alert 4/15/2004 [from http://www.isoc.lu/conferences/21st-century-tidal-wave/Robert-Bednarek.html]: ROBERT BEDNAREK EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF SES GLOBAL Previous appointments: Executive Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, PanAmSat Corporation Senior Vice-President, Engineering & Operations, PanAmSat Corporation Co-founder and Partner of Rubin, Bednarek & Associates Deputy Chief Scientist of the U.S. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Florida Other: U.S. national, born October 6, 1957 Married and father of a daughter Board Member American Astronautics Society 7/9/2004 CRIMINAL charges to be laid in Calabogie dam deaths Ottawa Citizen - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada The Citizen has learned the government-owned company, and employees Robert Bednarek and John Tammadge, will each be charged by Ontario Provincial Police with ... http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c9cd7370-ee37-434d-bf3d-c244c4af315c POWER company, 2 employees charged in deaths CTV - Canada ... Robert Bednarek, 45, an Ontario Power operator, John Tammadge, 50, a group manager, and the company were each charged with two counts of criminal negligence ... 7/9/2004 ONTARIO Power Generation Charged in Deaths of Mother and Son Bloomberg - USA Robert Bednarek, 45, an Ontario Power operator at the Barrett Chute Generating Station, John Tammadge, 50, a group manager, and the company were each charged ... 7/9/2004 7/10/2004 CHARGES laid after torrent kills two Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada ... with two counts of criminal negligence causing death and seven counts of criminal negligence causing bodily harm are operator Robert Bednarek, 45, plant ... 7/14/2004 'MOUNTAIN' of evidence released in case of dam deaths CBC Ottawa - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada ... Dam operator Robert Bednarek and the power company's area manager, John Tammadge, did not appear in the Pembroke courtroom Tuesday, but were represented by ... Bednarek, Sandra (and Sandy) 5/28/2004 BAHR remembered as hardworking family man Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA ... Harold and my grandfather, Albert, coming home from hunting when there was no limits on the number of pheasants to hunt," said his daughter, Sandra Bednarek. ... 22 Sep 2004 RUNNING: Marathon volunteers make race go Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA ... enriching experience. Just ask Sandy Bednarek, who has captained the finish line crew for every one of the Free Press marathons. Or ... http://www.freep.com/sports/othersports/kurtis22e_20040922.htm Bednarek, Sarah 6/3/2004 EYE on R-Town Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA ... Torres, Kai Vierstra, Claire Watkins and Ruby Wescoat, who have just received MFA degrees; Diana Al-Hadid, Allison Andrews, Sarah Bednarek, Gabriel Bennett ... Bednarek, Stef BAND are hoping to make it to T ic Pertshire.co.uk - Perthshire,UK ... 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Pulak, Bill 10/11/2005 Marengo-Union chamber 229 strong at 35 Northwest Herald - Crystal Lake,IL,USA ... Bill Pulak, vice president. Pulak owns the Law Office of William D. Pulak in Marengo. ... Pulak, who replaces Shade, lives in Marengo. ... http://www.nwherald.com/BusinessSection/284444124808734.php Pulak, David 30 Sep 2004 DATABASE: Journey to the Cell's Core Science Magazine (subscription) - USA ... of movies you can screen at Cellnucleus.com, a portal created by Michael Hendzel of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and colleague David Pulak. ... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol306/issue5693/netwatch.shtml Pulak, Scott 10/2/2004: Hockey: Electricians split pair at tourney Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,United States ... Americans. Neeco Belanger and Scott Pulak scored two goals apiece for Marquette with Belanger also picking up an assist. Patrick ... http://www.miningjournal.net/sptcolumns/story/102202004_sco02-sc1002.asp 11/13/2004 Electricians split in Pittsburgh Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA Nine Electricians (18-9-2) scored goals in the game, with two goals each scored by Scott Pulak, Pat Tiesling, Corey Englehart and Neeco Belanger. ... http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/story/1113202004_spt02-s1113.asp 11/21/2004 Late surge powers Electros to victory Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA ... Arena. The Electricians received bookending tallies from Scott Pulak and one from Pete Lorinser to improve to 23-10-2 on the season. ... http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/story/1121202004_spt04-s1121.asp 12/12/2004 Electricians skate to three ties Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA ... Marquette's goals were scored by Cody Omilusik at 7:43 - assisted by Scott Pulak and Pete Lorinser - and at 17:50 by Taylor Doorlag, unassisted. ... http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/story/1212202004_spt09-s1212.asp 12/20/2004 Junior Hockey Roundup: Electricians smoke Capital Centre Pride Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA Scott Pulak recorded his 21st, 22nd and 23 goals of the year, while Cody Omilusik and Mark Olver posted two goals apiece for the victors. ... http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/story/1220202004_spt03-s1220.asp 10/11/2005 Electricians beat Finnish team, 5-0 Marquette Mining Journal - Marquette,MI,USA ... stanza. Scott Pulak intercepted a Kajaani clearing attempt and whipped a one-timer home for his team-leading 13th goal of the season. ... http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/story/1011202005_spt01-s1011.asp Pulak, William 6/1/2004 ANIMAL neglect case back to court Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA ... criminal case. But a lawyer who represented them in the civil case, William Pulak, said none of the animals was mistreated. All ...

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The following are mostly quotes, with some paraphrases and summaries. I sometimes include my own ideas and questions.

Table of Contents

Bach, Richard "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" 1977.
Bateson, Gregory "Mind and Nature : A Necessary Unity" 1979.
Beatty, Jack "The World According to Peter Drucker" 1998.
Bednark, Robert "Axioms of Science" 2001.   (updated 9/24/2001)
Benedetti, Paul and DeHart, Nancy (editors) "On McLuhan : Reflections " 1997
Berg, A. Scott "Lindbergh" 1998.
Brand, Stewart "The Essential Whole Earth Catalog" 1986 (1st edition).
Carse, James P. "Breakfast at the Victory : The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience" 1994.   (updated 8/27/2001)
de Bono, Edward "I Am Right You Are Wrong : From This To The New Renaissance : From Rock Logic to Water Logic" 1990.
Gannon, Martin J. "Understanding Global Cultures : Metaphorical Journeys Through 23 Nations" 2001 (2nd edition).   (updated 22 Dec 2003)
Hayakawa, S. I. "Language in Thought and Action (5th Edition)" 1990.
Hayakawa, S. I. "Language in Thought and Action (4th Edition)" 1978.
Hayes, Charles (editor) "Tripping : An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures" 2000.   (updated 7/10/2001)
Hendricks, Gay and Kate Ludeman "The Corporate Mystic : A Guidebook for Visionaries with their Feet on the Ground" 1996.
Hudson, Gail and Jack Kornfield "Interview with Jack Kornfield" 2000.   (updated 5/15/2001)
Lamott, Anne "Traveling Mercies : Some Thoughts on Faith" 1999.
Maslow, Abraham H. "The Psychology of Science : A Reconnaissance" 1966 (Harper and Row).
Miller, Donald W., Jr. "Heart in Hand" 1999 (available free on the web).
Parent, Marc "Believing It All : What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life" 2001.   (updated 9/07/2001)
Payne, Buryl "Getting There Without Drugs : Techniques and Theories for the Expansion of Cousiousness" 1973.   (updated 9/24/2001)
Remen, Rachel Naomi "Kitchen Table Wisdom : Stories That Heal" 2001.   (updated 9/27/2001)
Richardson, Cheryl "How to Create a High-Quality Life" 2000.
Slater, Philip "The Wayward Gate : Science and the Supernatural" 1977.
Suzuki, Shunryu "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind : Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice" 1970,2001.
Miscellaneous quotes, questions, and ideas   (updated 08/02/2005)

Nafs, ego, frustrations, and failures by Anna Kilmer in "Real Miracles" article, Parabola, Winter 2003
  (added 8/02/2005)
(Myopia and change of perception) by Paul Messier (pmessier@nortelnetworks.com) 2/25/1999
  (added 2/15/2002)
Out At 5pm (OA5) Company Assumptions by Scott Adams
  (added 1/7/2002)
A Degree is a Learner's Permit   (updated 12/27/2001)
The Laws of Witches - The Seven Hermetic Laws from "Laws of Order" by Jeff Rovin 1992.   (updated 5/16/2001)

Poems

Quotes and paraphrases from books and articles
Bach, Richard "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" 1977.

pp. 1-24 quote
1. There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana, raised in the mystical hills east of Fort Wayne.
2. The Master learned of this world in the public schools of Indiana, and as he grew, in his trade as a mechanic of automobiles.
3. But the Master had learnings from other hands and other schools, from other lives that he had lived. He remembered these, and remembering became wise and strong, so that others saw his strength and came to him for counsel.
4. The Master believed that he had power to help himself and all mankind, and as he believed so it was for him, so that others saw his power and came to him to be healed of their troubles and their many diseases.
5. The Master believed that it is well for any man to think upon himself as a son of God, and as be believed, so it was, and the shops and garages where he worked became crowded and jammed with those who sought his learning and his touch, and the streets outside with those who longed only that the shadow of his passing might fall upon them, and change their lives.
6. It came to pass, because of the crowds, that the several foremen and shop managers bid the Master leave his tools and go his way, for so tightly was he thronged that neither he nor other mechanics had room to work upon the automobiles.
7. So it was that he went into the countryside, and people following began to call him Messsiah, and worker of miracles; and as they believed, it was so.
8. If a storm passed as he spoke, not a raindrop touched a listener's head; the last of the multitude heard his words as clearly as the first, no matter lightning nor thunder in the sky about. And always he spoke to them in parables.
9. And he said unto them, "Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and to sickness, to riches and to poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another."
10. A mill-man spoke and said, "Easy words for you, Master, for you are guided as we are not, and need not toil as we toil. A man has to work for his living in this world."
11. The Master answered and said, "Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
12. "The current of the river swept silently over them all -- young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.
13. "Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.
14. "But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.'
15. "The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!'
16. "But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.
17. "Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
18. "And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!'
19. "And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.'
20. "But they cried the more, 'Saviour!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour."
21. And it came to pass when he saw that the multitude thronged him the more day on day, tighter and closer and fiercer than ever they had, when he saw that they pressed him to heal them without rest, and feed them always with his miracles, to learn for them and to live their lives, he went alone that day unto a hilltop apart, and there he prayed.
22. And he said in his heart, Infinite Radiant Is, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me, let me lay aside this impossible task. I cannot live the life of one other soul, yet ten thousand cry to me for life. I'm sorry I allowed it all to happen. If it be thy will, let me go back to my engines and my tools and let me live as other men.
23. And a voice spoke to him on the hilltop, a voice neither male nor female, loud nor soft, a voice infinitely kind. And the voice said unto him, "Not my will, but thine be done. For what is thy will is mine for thee. Go thy way as other men, and be thou happy on the Earth."
24. And hearing, the Master was glad, and gave thanks, and came down from the hilltop humming a little mechanic's song. And when the throng pressed him with its woes, beseeching him to heal for it and learn for it and feed it nonstop from his understanding and to entertain it with his wonders, he smiled upon the multitude and said pleasantly unto them, "I quit."
25. For a moment the multitude was stricken dumb with astonishment.
26. And he said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"
27. "Of course, Master!" cried the many. "It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!"
28. "No matter what those tortures, nor how difficult the task?"
29. "Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, if so be that God has asked," said they.
30. "And what would you do," the Master said unto the multitude, "if God spoke directly to your face and said, 'I COMMAND THAT YOU BE HAPPY IN THE WORLD, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.' What would you do then?"
31. And the multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.
32. And the Master said unto the silence, "In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. So it is that I have learned this day, and choose to leave you now to walk your own path, as you please."
33. And he went his way through the crowds and left them, and he returned to the everyday world of men and machines.

Bateson, Gregory "Mind and Nature : A Necessary Unity" 1979.

p. 6 quote
In those days (and even today?), science was believed to be "value-free" and not guided by "emotions."
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pp. 7-8 quote
I had two paper bags, and the first of these I opened, producing a freshly cooked crab, which I placed on the table. I then challenged the class somewhat as follows: "I want you to produce arguments which will convince me that this object is the remains of a living thing. You may imagine, if you will, that you are Martians and that on Mars you are familiar with living things, being indeed yourselves alive. But, of course, you have never seen crabs or lobsters. A number of objects like this, many of them fragmentary, have arrived, perhaps by meteor. You are to inspect them and arrive at the conclusion that they are the remains of living things. How would you arrive at that conclusion?"
...the question [is]: Is there a biological species of entropy?
Both questions concerned the underlying notion of a dividing line between the world of the living (where distinctions are drawn and difference can be a cause) and the world of nonliving billiard balls and galaxies (where forces and impacts are the "causes" of events). These are the two worlds that Jung (following the Gnostics) calls creatura (the living) and pleroma (the nonliving). I was asking: What is the difference between the physical world of pleroma, where forces and impacts provide sufficient basis of explanation, and the creatura, where nothing can be understood until differences and distinctions are invoked?
In my life, I have put the descriptions of sticks and stones and billiard balls and galaxies in one box, the pleroma, and have left them alone. In the other box, I put living things: crabs, people, problems of beauty, and problems of difference. The contents of the second box are the subject of the book.
... "Break the pattern which connects the items of learning and you necessarily destroy all quality."
I offer you the phrase the pattern which connects as a synonym, another possible title for this book.
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p. 8 quote
What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the back-ward schizophrenic in another?
I want to tell you why I have been a biologist all my life, what it is that I have been trying to study. What thoughts can I share regarding the total biological world in which we live and have our being? How is it put together?
What now must be said is difficult, appears to be quite empty, and is of very great and deep importance to you and to me. At this historic juncture, I believe it to be important to the survival of the whole biosphere, which you know is threatened.
What is the pattern which connects all the living creatures?
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pp. 8-9 quote
Let me go back to my crab and my class of beatniks. I was very lucky to be teaching people who were not scientists and the bias of whose minds was even anti-scientific. All untrained as they were, their bias was aesthetic. I would define that word, for the moment, by saying that they were not like Peter Bly, the character of whom Wordsworth sang
A primrose by the river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him;
And it was nothing more.
Rather, they would meet the primrose with recognition and empathy. By aesthetic, I mean responsive to the pattern which connects. So you see, I was lucky. Perhaps by coincidence, I faced them with what was (though I knew it not) an aesthetic question: How are you related to this creature? What pattern connects you to it?
By putting them on an imaginary planet, "Mars," I stripped them of all thought of lobsters, amoebas, cabbages, and so on and forced the diagnosis of life back into identification with living self: "You carry the bench marks, the criteria, with which you could look at the crab to find that it, too, carries the same marks." My question was much more sophisticated that I knew.
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pp. 9-10 quote
Yes, indeed, the two claws are characterized (ugly word) by embodying similar relations between parts. Never quantities, always shapes, forms, and relations. This was, indeed, something that characterized the crab as a member of creatura, a living thing.
Later, it appeared that not only are the two claws built on the same "ground plan" (i.e., upon corresponding sets of relations between corresponding parts), but that these relations between corresponding parts extend down the series of the walking legs. We could recognize in every leg pieces that corresponded to the pieces in the claw.
And in your own body, of course, the same sort of thing is true. Humerus in the upper arm corresponds to femur in the thigh, and radius-ulna corresponds to tibia-fibula; the carpals in the wrist correspond to tarsals in the foot; fingers correspond to toes.
The anatomy of the crab if repetitive and rhythmical. It is, like music, repetitive with modulation. Indeed, the direction from head toward tail corresponds to a sequence in time: In embryology, the head is older than the tail. A flow of information is possible, from front to rear.
Professional biologists talk about phylogenetic homology (see Glossary) for that class of facts of which one example is the formal resemblance between my limb bones and those of a horse. Another example is the formal resemblance
That is one class of facts. Another (somehow similar?) class of facts is what they call serial homology. One example is the rhythmic repetition with change from appendage to appendage down the length of the beast (crab of man); another (perhaps not quite comparable because of the difference in relation to time) would be the bilateral symmetry of the man or crab.
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pp. 10-11 quote
Let me start again. The parts of a crab are connected by various patterns of bilateral symmetry, of serial homology, and so on. Let us call these patterns within the individual growing crab first-order connections. But now we look at crab and lobster and we again find connection by pattern. Call it second-order connection, or phylogenetic homology.
Now we look at man or horse and find that, here again, we can see symmetries and serial homologies. When we look at the two together, we find the same cross-species sharing of pattern with a difference (phylogenetic homology). And, of course, we also find the same discarding of magnitudes in favor of shapes, patterns, and relations. In other words, as this distribution of formal resemblances is spelled out, it turns out that gross anatomy exhibits three levels or logical types of descriptive propositions:
1. The parts of any member of Creatura are to be compared with other parts of the same individual to give first-order connections.
2. Crabs are to be compared with lobsters or men with horses to find similar relations between parts (i.e., to give second-order connections).
3. The comparison between crabs and lobsters is to be compared with the comparison between man and horse to provide third-order connections.
We have constructed a ladder of how to think about... the pattern which connects.
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p. 11 quote
My central thesis...
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Beatty, Jack "The World According to Peter Drucker" 1998.

p. 1 quote
The President knew the man needed no introduction, so, without a word of identification, he simply told the employees of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare assembled to hear his speech: "Peter Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. It's the aim of my administration to prove Mr. Drucker wrong." If Richard Nixon thought he did not have to identify Peter Drucker thirty years ago, must I do it know? Drucker's fame is planetary. (The test of planetary is to have one of your novels be a best seller in Brazil.) According to a recent book on management gurus, Peter Drucker is "one of the few thinkers in any discipline who can claim to have changed the world: he is the inventor of privatization, the apostle of a new class of knowledge workers, the champion of management as a serious discipline." Drucker has been called everything from "the father of management" to "the man who changed the face of industrial America" to "the one great thinker management theory has produced."
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p. 5 quote
term: "society of organizations" -- compared to what?
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p. 7 quote
For sixty years Drucker has taken on a new subject every three or four years and read up on it to the capacious limits of his curiosity. One year it might be Japanese art, which he taught on the side for six years at Pomona College; another year it could be sixteenth-century finance; yet another the history of technology or of work -- or of American statesmen or of British rule in India. He recommends intellectual omnivorousness as a form of self-renewal.
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pp. 8-9 quote
Miss Elsa devised a way to make Peter responsible for his own learning. She gave him a notebook and required him to record what he expected to learn at the beginning of each week and then to check his expectations against the results at the end of the week. (Miss Elsa, it appears, invented "Managing by Objectives," Drucker's signature management concept.)
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Bednark, Robert "Axioms of Science" 2001.   (updated 9/24/2001)
a) Things can be measured.
b) If effect X happened before, the same causes will cause X to happen again.
c) Single things are a part of a class of things. Abstraction tends to be forgotten. So, for example, all humans are treated alike, because they are all human.
d) The future can be predicted.
e) Statistics and probability apply to the real world, and can be used to predict the future.
f) It is possible for people to be objective.
g) People are motivated to seek objectivity to alleviate their anxiety, fear, and tension. [Philip Slater]

Benedetti, Paul and DeHart, Nancy (editors) "On McLuhan : Reflections " 1997

p. 1? quote
He repeated insistently that we should stop saying "Is this a good thing or bad thing?" and start saying, "What's going on?" -Liss Jeffrey
p. 6? quote The electronic age... angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software. -- Marshall McLuhan, 1971.

p. 45 quote
My father decided in the sixties that he would try as much as he could to present his ideas in an aphoristic style. Aphorisms, as Francis Bacon said, are incomplete, a bit like cartoons. They are not filled-out essay writing that is highly compressed. ...

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Berg, A. Scott "Lindbergh" 1998.

p. 447 summary
Tested P-47 "Thunderbolts", formulated emergency procedures, and ordered changes in the plane's design, which helped save lives.
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pp. 446-447 summary
Submitted himself to medical testing at Mayo Clinic, and came up with idea to train himself to become aware of hypoxic condition and switch oxygen tanks, which became part of indoctrination program for pilots.
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pp. 447-448 quote
As those Thunderbolts entered production--becoming the most effective bomber escort planes in the European Theater--Lindbergh steadily devoted more time to United's development of the Navy Marine Corsair (Vought F4U), which would be used as both a carrier fighter and a land-based plane. Between December 1942 and July 1943, Lindbergh made eight trips to Hartford, where he taught pilots the fine points of flying the plane, with its unique, upturned-wing design. Trained as a fighter pilot and frustrated at not having seen action, Lindbergh participated in maneuvers and mock combat. Deak Lyman, formerly of The New York Times, then working as an executive for United Aircraft, recalled Lindbergh's taking his plane up and engaging in a high-altitude gunnery contest against two of the Marines' best pilots. Lyman said the forty-one-year-old civilian "outguessed, outflew, and outshot" both his opponents, each practically half his age.
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pp. 448 quote
Until the arrangements were made, Lindbergh continued to test planes, mostly single-seater or two-place planes at military bases. The work was dangerous, as some of the planes were experimental and others were obsolete, many with untried or overworked parts. During four days in January at Eglin Field in Florida, Lindbergh flew eight different planes--including the Boeing B-29, which America was about to release into the skies. This superfortress--capable of flying 350 m.p.h., with a radius of over two thousand miles, and a maximum bomb-load of twenty thousand pounds--was the pride of the nearly one hundred thousand planes the United Sates would produce that year, a vast improvement in speed, range, and load over any of of the 2200 planes America had produced in 1939"
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Brand, Stewart "The Essential Whole Earth Catalog" 1986 (1st edition).

p. 21 quote
Here comes this wave. Look at all this whiteness and all those bubbles. I said to myself, "I've been taught at school that to be able to design a model -- because a bubble is a sphere -- you have to use pi, and the number, pi, 3.14159265, on and on goes the number." We find it cannot be resolved because it is a transcendental irrational. So I said, "When nature makes one of those bubbles, how many places did she have to carry out pi before she discovered you can't resolve it? And at what point does nature decide to make a fake bubble?" I said, "I don't think nature is turning out any fake bubbles, I think nature's not using pi." This made me start looking for ways in which nature did contrive all mensurations, all her spontaneous associations, without using such numbers.
Buckminster Fuller (An Autobiographical Monologue / Scenario): Documented and Edited by Robert Snyder, 1980
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p. 21 quote
Physics has found no solids! So to keep on teaching our children the word solid immediately is to drive home a way of thinking that is going to be neither reliable nor useful.
There are no surfaces, there are no solids, there are no straight lines, there are no planes.
Buckminster Fuller (An Autobiographical Monologue / Scenario) Documented and Edited by Robert Snyder, 1980 {Added 12/21/98}
p. 21 quote
There comes a time, however, when we discover other ways of doing the same task more economically -- as, for instance, when we discover that a 200-ton transoceanic jet airplane -- considered on an annual round-trip-frequency basis -- can outperform the passenger-carrying capability of the 85,000-ton Queen Mary.

Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.
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p. 21 quote
I am not a thing -- a noun. I am not flesh. At eighty-five, I have taken in over a thousand tons of air, food, and water, which temporarily became my flesh and which progressively disassociated from me. You and I seem to be verbs -- evolutionary processes. Are we not integral functions of the Universe?

Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.
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p. 21 quote
1053.832 Radiation outcasts. Radiation does not broadcast; broadcast is a planar statement; there are no planes. Out is inherently omnidivergent. Radiation omnicasts but does not and cannot *in*cast; it can only go-in-to-go-out. *In* is gravity.
1053.833 If radiation "goes through" a system and comes out on the other side, it does so because (1) there was no frequency interference -- it just occurred between the system's occurrence frequencies -- or (2) there was tangential interference and deflection thereby of the of angle of travel, wherefore it did not go through; it went by.
Synergetics by Buckminster Fuller, 1975.
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p. 22 quote
It is a nontrivial matter that we are almost always unaware of trends in our changes of state. There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump, he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing its own environment with slowly increasing pollution and rotting its mind with slowly deteriorating religion and education in such a saucepan?
Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson, 1979.
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p. 22 quote
Human sense organs can receive only news of difference, and the differences must be coded into events in time (i.e. into changes) in order to be perceptible. Ordinary static differences that remain constant for more than a few seconds become perceptible only by scanning.
Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson, 1979.
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p. 22 quote
Ross Ashby long ago pointed out that no system (neither computer nor organism) can produce anything new unless the system contains some source of the random. In the computer, this will be a random-number generator which will ensure that the "seeking," trial-and-error moves of the machine will ultimately cover all the possibilities of the set to be explored.
Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson, 1979.
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Carse, James P. "Breakfast at the Victory : The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience" 1994.   (updated 8/27/2001)

In one of the great court banquets, everyone was seated according to rank, waiting the entry of the King. In came a plain, shabby man and took a seat above everyone else. His boldness angered the prime minister who ordered the newcomer to identify himself. Was he a minister? No. More. Was he the King? No. More. "Are you then God?" asked the prime minister. "I am above that also," replied the poor man. "There is nothing beyond God," retorted the prime minister. "That nothing," came the response, "is me."
-- A Sufi parable
[p. 1 quote]

Mystics often distinguish between the ego and the soul, or the ego and the self. The terms are not so important, but the distinction is. The ego is the dualist in us. It is the habit we have of seeing ourselves over and against someone else. As ego, my inwardness remains inward because it is completely closed off to you by my outwardness. As ego, my wealth, intelligence, moral goodness, social class are what they are only in contrast to the person next to me. Whether or not we are believers, we oppose the natural and the supernatural; we are here and worldly, God is there and other-worldly. In fact, belief and unbelief are strictly issues for the ego; you can't be an unbeliever unless there are some believers against whom you are an unbeliever. All such oppositions are creations of the ego.
From the perspective of soul, however, we see each opposing either/or as a conjoined both/and. We can be here only because we are not there; in this way the "here" and "there" belong together. "That comes from this, and this comes from that--which means that that and this give birth to one another. Life rises from death and death from life." (Chuang-tsu) If God exists beyond all the heavens, then God must be hidden in what is closest and most familiar to us. "When there is no more separation between "this and that, it is called the still-point of Tao. At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things." I can be separated from you only because at a deeper level we are joined in something inseparable. I cannot be alone alone.
The still center, the soul, does not oppose anything. Not opposing anything, it does nothing. As soul, we do not act; we are. As ego, we cope with the world, change it, arrange it, try to improve it. We cope with ourselves, too, becoming our own projects, struggling to be who and where we are not. When we become aware of the still-point in a person, of a deed that has no doer, we are aware of soul; we are in the presence of presence.
[pp. 11-12 quote]

Mystical vision is seeing how extraordinary the ordinary is.
[p. 15 quote]

The mystical is thoroughly worldly... but it's inherent indifference to the world seems to leave the world exactly as it is.
[p. 16 quote]

Abu Yazid made his periodic journey to purchase supplies at the bazaar in the city of Hamadhan--a distance of several hundred miles. When he returned home, he discovered a colony of ants in the cardamom seeds. He carefully packed the seeds up again and walked back across the desert to the merchant from whom he had bought them. His intent was not to exchange the seeds but to return the ants to their home.
-- A Sufi legend
[p. 19 quote]

In using language, we create distinctions where none exist.
[p. 24 quote]

Everything is under way, in motion, passing, impermanent, samsaric. Using words to isolate some portion of the flux is like taking a photograph of the surface of the ocean. No sooner does the lens close than a different ocean appears. It may be the same ocean but no single photograph, or any number of photographs, can capture its oneness.
[p. 24 quote]

The issue for mystics is not whether we use our language accurately to describe the world that is really there, but whether we see that the things created by our language have the impermanence of foam on the face of the unnameable, the unknowable, the unutterable.
[p. 24 quote]

...But I had the predictable response. Instead of a failure of knowledge itself, I took this to be my failure to have enough of it.
[p. 29 quote]

This is... a popular notion of what knowledge does for us: it eliminates ignorance. This is an exuberantly confident attitude toward knowledge.
[p. 29 quote]

One morning the teacher announced to his disciples that they would walk to the top of the mountain. The disciples were surprised because even those who had been with him for years thought the teacher was oblivious to the mountain whose crest looked serenely down on their town.
By midday it became apparent that the teacher had lost direction. Moreover, no provision had been made for food. There was increasing grumbling but he continued walking, sometimes through underbrush and sometimes across faces of crumbling rock.
When they reached the summit in the late afternoon, they found other wanderers already there who had strolled up a well-worn path. The disciples complained to the teacher.
He said only, "These others have climbed a different mountain."
[p. 33 quote]

A teacher is anyone who leads us to a new vision of our lives just where we thought there was only loss.
[p. 49 quote]

He who binds himself to a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
-- William Blake
[p. 50 quote]

What we see in Socrates is not a developed philosophy but an engaged receptivity, an active listening. If there is anything resembling a method here it is his attempts to raise insights in his students of which he himself was incapable. In other words, Socarates' originality consists in his ability to originate in others what he could not originate in himself.
[p. 69 quote]

We know we have met such a teacher when we come away amazed not at what the teacher was thinking but at what we are thinking. We will forget what the teacher is saying because we are listening to a source deeper than the teachings themselves. A great teacher exposes the source, then steps back. Great teachings have all the qualities of samsara. They pass away. As soon as we hear them they are gone and we are listening to what follows. That is why we need to remember nothing of what Socrates actually taught.
[p. 70 quote]

The old way of seeing is strictly pre-Copernican but it has a fierce grip on our everyday consciousness. There we still dwell at the center of our world. Everything revolves around us. A straight line is not determined by the fixed positions of the sun and stars but by fixed positions on the moving earth. To the post-Copernican consciousness, this is not a straight line but an arc. The two ways of seeing are that of the ego and the soul. The ego is the fixed earth's agent in us; the soul is the heaven's. The ego is concerned with centers, the soul lives on margins, circumferences, horizons. Limitlessness is the natural element of the soul, a dread foe of the ego. When Pascal said he was terrified to see the small face he occupied "swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not," he was speaking with the voice of the ego.
[p. 81 quote]

Mystical vision is the way the soul sees. It has no object. It does not occur because something unusual has come into view and demands to be looked at. The ego looks for something new within its field, while the field remains the same.
[p. 81 quote]

The ego wants nothing less than to see God. The soul knows, however, that if the Divine were to appear, the ego would not recognize it. The heavens cannot open for the soul; they are already open.
[p. 82 quote]

It is one thing to see something remarkable appearing inexplicably in the world, it is quite another to see the world itself as remarkable and all of existence as inexplicable.
[p. 82 quote]

Marginalizing the ego, abandoning it to the circumference, is a way of entering the soul. In fact, it might be more accurate to say that marginalizing the ego is precisely the work of the soul. This is the work the mystics call "naughting" the ego.
[pp. 82-83 quote]

Mystical vision never comes when you expect it. If you could consciously and explicitly prepare yourself for it, you would know what you were preparing yourself for and therefore would already have it. Such is the work of the ego. The soul, however, is constantly at work in quite another way. This is a work as unseen by us as the vision is unexpected. That we have been readied for vision by the soul is obvious only afterwards. Then we can only be surprised to know that what we thought was preparation was something else altogether. In fact, the true preparation for vision is nothing like what we would choose for preparation.
Indeed, the grander the vision, the more extensive--and the more surprising--our preparation has been. Through the whole course of our ordinary life, veils are dropping away but as long as we are looking from the perspective of ego we never notice.
[p. 83 quote]

Mystical vision requires inversion. Since we cannot seek it, it can only be what we cannot and would not seek. We must be turned away, found in error, unable to account for ourselves. It can come after a blunder, a false turn, a rejected plea, a painful self-revelation, an irrecoverable loss.
[p. 84 quote]

Then even nothingness was not, nor existence.
There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it.
What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping?
Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?
Then there was neither death nor immortality,
nor was there then the touch of night and day.
The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining.
There was that One then, and there was no other.
In the beginning desire descended upon it--
that was the primal seed, born of the mind.
The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom
know that which is kin to that which is not.
But, after all, who knows, and who can say
whence it all came, and how creation happened?
The gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
he who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows--or maybe even he does not know.
--RIG VEDA, X:129
[p. 89 quote] [from p. 23, A. L. Basham, "The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism, 1989]

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully, I saw that in reality God was the Seeker and I was the sought.
--An Anonymous Sufi
[p. 125 quote] [from Kenneth Cragg, "Wisdom of The Sufis", 1976, p. 48]

Bob was raised an Episcopalian, I a Presbyterian. From the way he talked about it, his God was decidedly more genial than mine. Mine was a distant, faceless entity you had somehow to find on your own. Bob's was always there ready to cheer you up. I thought of Bob's dad, an older, aristocratic gentleman with bushy, white eyebrows, abounding in genuine human warmth, ever glad to see you if only for the sake of a new joke--always a clean one. Bob didn't seem to have to look anywhere at all. His God was always checking in with you. So you just wait. And God's there.
My God was more like the sky over the sound: gray, vast, cold, full of veiled threat. You had to be a sharp thinker for this one and you had to work at it to get close. Getting close required dedication, sacrifice, and vigilance. For Bob's it was enough just to be there for morning worship, according to the Book of Common Prayer. Whether you come late, doze a little, even let your mind wander, it's all the same.
I wanted a God I could experience in some amazing way. Bob's faith overlapped so completely with his life that God was more like a companion than, well, like God. Such an experience of God seemed to me too unexceptional, too ordinary, reassuring but boring. I was always looking for a revelation, a sign, an appearance in the void so unexpected it threw off all your thinking. There was something lovely in the idea of a God who just puts an arm across your shoulders, but still, I wanted to be carried up, swept away.
There was an irony here I missed completely. If the God implicit in Bob's faith was an affable aristocrat, there was at least an openness to every sort of experience. No one in his variety of Christianity was privileged by the quality of their private relation to the Divine. My idea of the experience of God, on the other hand, led to religious elitism. In wanting a special revelation of my own, I wanted also to be special among the citizens of faith. The certainty I longed for would, I thought, give my voice a discernible authority--a direct route to spiritual arrogance.
I was impatient with Bob's lack of theological earnestness. My Presbyterian conviction that in time everything would be explained, even if current explanations were still incomplete, seemed to amuse him.
[pp. 129-130 quote]

...I began to see that by assuming he needed the gospel before I had any knowledge of his life, I had lost my curiosity about him. My use of the gospel had not opened the world to me; it had narrowed my vision of it.
Spiritual arrogance is hardly unique to Christianity. I imagine I could just as easily have argued that this perspiring and unhappy citizen needed nothing so much as the Buddhist dharma, or the five pillars of Islam, or the ritual instructions of the Yajur Veda, or the wisdom of the Torah.
Mystics frequently warn us against seeing the whole world from a perspective unique to our own tradition. Ibn Arabi, a master of Sufi gnosticism, observed that if we remembered that "the water takes its color from the vessel containing it," we would not interfere with the beliefs of others "but would perceive God in every form of belief." But how do we get at the clear water? How especially can we presume to find God everywhere without arriving at an even higher arrogance?
[pp. 133-134 quote] [inner quote from Reynold A. Nicholson, "The Mystics of Islam", 1975, p. 88.]

Only by first seeing our own limitations can we learn to see the infinite variability of the world's colors.
[p. 134 quote]

...seeing how far we are from God, the mystics thought, is the way God begins to seek us.
[p. 139 quote]

Can it be that the creative lies not in the acquired abilities of the ego but in the freedom to let the ego float off...?
[p. 148 quote]

I had been impressed less by the feeling of drunkenness itself than by the fact that there was some part of me the alcohol never touched. The self that knew I was drunk was not itself drunk. I remained a silent watcher of myself, soberly aware of my own silly and often dangerous behavior. This adolescent discovery takes a larger meaning in adult experience: at the heart of all our passions--grief, joy, alarm, lust--resides a clear-eyed witness ever awake and innocent, untouched by these storms.
[p. 149 quote]

The more compelling question, and one that remains a question, is how I or anyone can open the sources of creativity within ourselves, given the obvious limitations of our worldly entanglement. The easier, more manageable answer to this question would be that creativity is a skill or a technique, a certain activity we would be taught if we were bright and clever enough. In my brief exposure to Frost I sensed a radically opposed alternative: creativity is *not* doing something, it is looking through whatever we do with the eye of the sleepless watcher, it is remaining through whatever we say [to] an uncritically receptive listener. W.H. Auden said that we become poets not because we have important things we want to say but because we "like hanging around words listening to what they have to say." True creativity stands aside so each word, each form, can emerge with its own energy. True creativity leaves the question of its origin unresolved.
[pp 149-150 quote] [Robert K. C. Forman, ed., "The Problem of Pure Consciousness", 1990, p 115]

...the character of a Zen koan: a word or phrase that speaks but says nothing. An effective koan is unforgettable, and yet uninterpretable--or, the same thing, endlessly interpretable. Its spiritual function is to show us that the mind is empty, that its content is attached to nothing beyond itself. Thoughts come and go, weightless as snowflakes, shapeless as wind.
[p 154 quote]

...where is the poetry...? Certainly not in the intention of the poet, for he has backed away from telling us what he is saying--by saying no more than the words. Certainly not in the words, for they point away from themselves. Certainly not in the realities at which the word point, for those realities vanish into the outer dark. It must therefore lie between us and the poet, between us and the words. For that reason, the poetry that keeps us speaking and listening to the words is a poetry the words will never perfectly contain. The poetry is timeless, inexhaustible, the poem is not.
[p 154 quote]

I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there's no wall, there's no need for fitting a window, or the latch.
--Jalal Al-din Rumi [p 157 quote] [Sharafuddin Maneri, "The Hundred Letters", tr., Paul Jackson, 1980, pp. 369f.]

"Be silent," Rumi said, "and practice the art of silence." Silence is a way of being and it is something we do. Learning to be silent is the goal of the art of silence. But since it is the unspeakable that makes speech possible, we are already silent. Silence is the essential condition of the soul. Becoming silent is not, therefore, something we achieve but a return to what we already are. Rumi could just as well have said, Be who you are and practice the art of being who you are.
[p 160 quote] [Sharafuddin Maneri, "The Hundred Letters", tr., Paul Jackson, 1980, pp. 369f.]

The initial awareness of our silence is deceptively simple. It begins with the obvious fact that when we are talking we are not silent. But as we quickly discover when we stop talking, this truism deceives. We don't actually stop talking. It's just that we are not talking out loud. Inwardly, the babble doesn't cease. In fact, it seems even to increase as we pay attention to it. Like a naughty child, we respond to every attempt to quiet ourselves by saying the very things our internal censor has tried to forbid. Characteristically, the first attempts at internal silence only magnify the noise.
So the obvious fact that when we are talking we are not silent yields to the more complicated fact that when we are not talking we are still not silent. How then do we go about the task of shutting down the inner voices that are trying to get our attention?
It is possible to get ourselves to stop talking by talking to ourselves, but only with virtuosic effort. We would need to develop an inner discipline by which we are always ready to spring out with a mental "Stop!" each time a word enters the edge of consciousness. This, however, would be less the practice of silence than the practice of shouting ourselves down. The result is something closer to mental wordlessness than to genuine silence. It is still the art of silencing , not the art of silence.
We won't make any progress in reaching a deeper level of silence until we abandon the struggle to silence ourselves and begin to listen to the many voices that insist on speaking within us. To do this we must become a listener who has nothing to say. Before we can become such a listener we must first know whose voices they are. In one sense, of course, they are all our own. There are no other speakers actually residing in us. In another sense, however, none of these voices is ours. They originate in our parents and children, in friends, lovers, teachers, in our critics and models, heroes and heroines. "Stand chin-to-chin with each of life's challenges and slug it out," my father says in one of his characteristic lectures. Dead thirty years, he is standing right at my shoulder. "It's better to lose than not to fight at all," he adds and gives me a gentle shove. "Will you miss me?" Alice asked a few days before she died, and continues to ask over and over again. Though the speakers are absent there is an urging, an insistent energy in their voices. These words don't just whip through our interiority like leaves in a storm. They require a response. "You know, I'm not really a slugger," I try to tell my father. "Yes, Alice," I say each time she asks. "Yes."
There is a paradox here. These words are spoken by others. We could not possibly have invented the words or the speakers. And yet, because no one is actually speaking them in us, they are also our own. When we step back to be a listener who has nothing to say, we see ourselves not just noisy with words but deep in conversation with scores of others. That we can have this conversation completely within ourselves shows how far we can isolate our interiority from others. None of the conversants need ever know we are talking with them. On the other hand, because every voice within us is someone's voice, we know this isolation can never be complete.
All language is therefore shared language. Even the most intimate and hidden conversation with ourselves is in words we have learned from speaking with others. In fact, we don't know what we are saying to ourselves unless we know what these words would mean if we spoke them to another. It is a curious fact that we cannot make up a private language to use only within ourselves. We might devise a secret code with an array of sounds and signs indecipherable to others, but if we couldn't translate them into language someone else could understand we couldn't make sense of them either.
For this reason, unless we have listeners other than ourselves, we cannot speak at all. I can't say anything to you unless you are waiting to receive my words. But I won't know I have said anything until you respond with your own speech. Then, of course, you won't speak unless my words have behind them a waiting silence of my own. Silence precedes our discourse with each other and makes it possible, but it must be a shared silence. Before each of us can have a voice of our own, we must enter a silence we can enter only together. It is a silence without walls.
By stepping back to be the listener who has nothing to say we discover that just as there is no language that is exclusively our own, there is no silence that is not a shared silence.
Because our speaking with each other implies a shared silence, because it is a silence that language cannot exhaust, the mysticism of language does not reside in what we say but in the very existence of language itself. Every spoken word is a threshold into our own inwardness and at the same time into oneness with others.
The soul has nothing to say. Its essential silence makes voices possible but it has no voice of its own. Therefore, from the perspective of soul, it is the ongoing, renewable, changeable nature of language, its continuing life, that is most important. Because the meanings of words arise in the way speakers respond to each other, there is a constant evolution of the meaning of any given word over the course of its use. The meaningfulness of our speech has much more to do with our ability to keep our discourse with each other open than it has to do with pinning down the meanings of words and expressions. We know our discourse is meaningful not by what we have said but by what has yet to be said. Soul draws our speech forward in the direction of the unspeakable. Only thus can it remain speech.
Ego, always the earnest dualist in us, is eager to maintain boundaries between speaker and listener. It wants to direct the flow of words, knowing in advance where our conversation with others is headed. A builder of walls, the ego longs for control over the meaning of words. But doing so, it walls itself in and though it may increase the volume of words it says less and less.
[pp 160-164]

It was the ego that had taken over the writing of the lecture. The ego, as always, misunderstood the nature of this gift of silence. Its desire was to fill the silence with words so clear and authoritative they would leave the audience speechless. I wanted to bring them to their feet in applause, of course, but an applause that recognized the speaker's achievement in saying all that needed saying. I wanted to do to Katz what Katz did to me as a student. I thought I could do it if I spoke like Katz. What I didn't understand is that I could do this only if I listened like Katz. Katz built his own walls of words and often seemed to get lost behind them but he also depended on us to tear them down with our confused questions and comments, bringing our messiness into the tidy order of his thought, opening him to paths surprising to both him and us, opening us to new questions, deeper confusion, and awe at the limitless creativity of mind.
[pp 165-166]

The lecture was so perfectly adequate it left almost nothing to be said. And for that reason, it said nothing. My mother did not hear me and neither did they. I had been drawn forward by a dynamic silence but the silence came to an end in my own speaking. I brought the right words but there was something missing in the speaker I came to be: a listener. All I had managed to prepare for all those anonymous faces was an anonymous face. The mask was just right but no one was looking at them through it.
[p 168]

...by speaking well I practiced only the art of silencing others.
[p 168]

A lover came to the dwelling of the Beloved and asked to be admitted.
"Who is there?" the Beloved asked.
"I am here," the lover answered.
The Beloved refused to admit the lover. After wandering in grief and longing for years the lover returned to the Beloved and begged to be admitted.
"Who is there?"
"You alone are there," the lover responded.
The door opened.
--A Sufi Story
[p 169]

I am not even sure why I tell the story here. You might say I was looking around for a story to illustrate something I wanted to say about mysticism. But, in fact, it didn't happen that way. The story appeared quite on its own without announcing itself as a mystical story. It popped up with as little connection to anything around it as when I first heard it. It has done this before, often. So it is not quite correct that I suddenly remembered the story. It is rather that I never really forgot it. The story has a life of its own. It elbows its way into whatever I am thinking whenever it wishes. I don't search for it; it comes after me. In ordinary speech I would say, "the story occurred to me."
The story came after Gerry as well. Even if it started with her mother, it had a persistent energy her mother could not have given it. It awoke a listener in Gerry's childhood that would not go back to sleep in her adulthood. But it awoke a listener in me as well. Why would a tale so contrary to fact and seemingly silly persist in seizing our attention unless there were a listener in us awake to something we could not yet notice?
[p 171]

Story and fact are always in uneasy tension with each other. No matter how carefully we line up the historical data or how honestly we report the actual events through which we have lived, these do not by themselves tell the story of our lives. To tell all is not to tell a tale. Getting the facts straight is not enough to find the story to which they belong. In fact, getting the facts straight is a very different activity from that of finding a story that can be "faithful" to the facts.
The faithfulness of stories to fact is often the way we evaluate them. "Is that story true?" "Did that really happen?" But stories seem to have a life of their own that allows them to race on without so much as a glance at the factual.
Because of their inherent liveliness, stories command a sharper attention than facts, however appropriate facts may be to the matter under discussion. The way an audience is visibly awakened by a narrative example during an otherwise precisely factual lecture shows that stories touch us closer to a listener's center than accurate descriptions of objective states of affairs. Gerry would not have grabbed my Milwaukee Braves cap and slid over to her corner of the front seat to lecture on the mechanics of her conception and delivery, nor if she had would I have remembered. The mythic story of her birth was abruptly invalidated by a few physiological details but it obviously had far too much vitality to be buried by the truth.
[pp 171-172]

From the fact that the resonance in Gerry's birth story is essentially bottomless we learn not that it was so remarkable a tale but that even the most usual stories around which our lives shape themselves are rich with echoes of deeper tales. Our self-understanding has a thoroughly narrative character. The self we know is a self on the way, a self in the midst of its passage.
[p 176]

Mystics speak frequently of the mystical path, the narrative journey of the soul to the One. It never happens that the lover goes directly to the dwelling of the Beloved and is admitted at once. Because the lover is mistaken about t
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Tue 08 Nov 2005 - "A Talk on the World"
I came across this brilliantly funny story called "A Talk on the World" from the album "Close to Home : Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection (1952-1967)". I don't know if there's a name for this style of storytelling, but I like it. Here's the mp3 file if you want to listen to it.
Mon 07 Nov 2005 - Most Important Software Innovations
I just stumbled across this interesting page on software innovations.
Mon 24 Oct 2005 - Goals
"The only way you are ever going to get what you want in life is if you KNOW what you want. What do you want?" [Mike Brescia]
I want to be happy and content.
Mon 24 Oct 2005 - 1 in 7 people buys a book in U.S.
I came across this today:
"Jack Canfield (author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul") told me that only 1 out of 7 people in the U.S. ever goes into a book store and buys a book, in their entire lives!" [Mike Brescia]
Wow, that surprised me.
Thu 20 Oct 2005 - Experiments < (created 9/20/2005, updated 10/20/2005)
I like the idea of looking at my life as a simply a bunch of experiments. It takes the pressure off and makes it more fun. Here's some experiments to try:
16) For each person that you deal with or think about, think of what you can admire about them.
15) Buy a bunch of pillows and cushions. Have fun with them in the house, building houses, walls, etc.
14) Focus on what has surprised you lately. What has inspired you. What has stirred your emotions.
13) Talk to a stranger
12) For one day, become aware of your feet as often as possible throughout the day.
11) Practice feeling and relaxing every part of your body for 2 minutes. See how you feel afterwards.
10) Learn from others' mistakes. Find one mistake today that somebody else made that you can learn from.
9) Actively practice using your imagination. Imagine that it's a muscle that you need to exercise. Imagine being a cat, being M.K. Gandhi, visualizing the Grand Canyon, listening to a symphony, sucking on a lemon, sitting on a cloud looking down, being a storyteller and creating a story, flying, floating on water.
8) When faced with a problem or something that you want to change, think of who would do really well in this situation, and become that person. Think like they think, and act like they act. Be an actor. [Mike Brescia]
7) Practice laughing for 1 minute. Imagine you're an actor and be as real as possible.
6) Stare at yourself in the mirror for 5 minutes. Set a timer.
5) Find out about someone else. Be genuine.[Mike Brescia]
4) Talk to yourself like you are an advisor to yourself. [Mike Brescia]
3) Fast for one meal, and use the money that you saved on food for something you wouldn't otherwise do, like giving it to a homeless person, or surprising someone with a gift.
2) Work on making one person smile today.
1) Smile for 60 seconds straight. Just sit there and smile. Don't do anything else. See how you feel afterwards. (from Mike Brescia )
Wed 19 Oct 2005 - Affirmations
I am content at all times. (inspired by Gandhi and Bhagavad Gita)

Wed 19 Oct 2005 - Firefox Tabs
The latest version of Firefox (1.5 Beta 2 at this time) has tabbed-browsing. I find this very nice for easily opening at a group of websites that I look at every day. For example, open Google News in one tab, The Onion in another, and then click "Bookmarks : Bookmark All Tabs". You can then click on that bookmark and click on "Open in tabs" and they will all be opened at once. Very nice!
Wed 19 Oct 2005 - Questions Running Through your Thoughts (created 10/17/2005, updated 10/19/2005)
Mike Brescia had another intesting idea today. He talked about the importance of the questions that we ask ourself. It's important to become aware of the questions that we ask ourselves, and to actively take control of choosing which questions to ask. For example, some good questions are "What can I do right now to be happier?". A bad question is "I can't do anything right. Why am I so stupid?". Frame the questions in a positive way to empower you and steer you in the right direction. Ask questions that give options and alternatives. Recognize the value of the questions that you ask yourself. Ask "How" questions instead of "Why" questions. Ask questions that help to change your behavior for the better. Per Mike, "if you focus your thoughts on empowering outcomes and ask yourself questions that give you answers that inspire you, then you'll find that your anxiety and panic attacks will reduce."
We can change ourselves by changing our environment and/or changing our thoughts. Our thoughts include affirmations and questions. It takes discipline. Discipline is simply taking active and conscious control.
Mon 10 Oct 2005 - Empowering Questions (created 10/3/2005, updated 10/4/2005)
What can I do today to help somebody else instead of thinking of myself?
What can I do right this second that will change who and what I am a year from now; 4 years from now? -Mike Brescia
What am I willing to give up in order to reach my objective? -Mike Brescia
What beauty can I notice today, something I never noticed before? -Mike Brescia

Tue 27 Sep 2005 - Create Your Victory Log
A victory log is merely a sheet of paper that you have nearby any time you need to be reminded of past successes of any kind. By reminding yourself about your successes, by pulling out that little sheet, you'll often be able to go on and reach down and grab your greatest performance ever even from the depths of despair. Often times, you just need to be able to remember that you can do it, when your thinking is really cloudy. If you get depressed, pull out your Victory Log and you'll feel a whole lot better. (from Mike Brescia )
Tue 27 Sep 2005 - Helping People Improves Mental Health
A study reported in the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine found that improved mental health is more closely linked to giving help than to receiving it. Quoting the publication, "What happens, it seems, is when you open your heart to other people to listen and care about them, it changes the way you look at the world and you're happier."
While the biological link between good deeds and improved mental health has not been determined, researchers postulate two theories:
1. stress reduction improves the immune system and therefore creates feelings of well-being, and
2. the same feel-good endorphins that stimulate "runners' high" also create "helper's high".
-David Leonhardt, The Happy Guy [thehappyguy.com], from David DeFord's upcoming book "I Wish to Be Useful: A Guide to Living with Greater Significance"
Tue 27 Sep 2005 - Greatness is in the Details
We often think that we must accomplish some huge, highly publicized feat to achieve greatness -- climb Everest without bottled oxygen, invent some wonderful product that everyone in the world needs: make the Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest, save a child from a burning building, or win a TV reality show contest.
Actually, greatness comes from consistently making wise smaller choices. The accumulation of many good small choices has the same impact as a few small drops of Tabasco sauce -- intense power!
Greatness comes from consistently keeping our commitments and promises. Keeping our word builds trust from others and trust in ourselves.
When we seek after and respect goodness, we develop greatness in ourselves. We attract greatness by appreciating the outdoors, reading good books, developing our talents, and carefully selecting television programs and movies that inspire integrity.
-David Leonhardt, The Happy Guy [thehappyguy.com], from David DeFord's upcoming book "I Wish to Be Useful: A Guide to Living with Greater Significance"
Tue 27 Sep 2005 - Eulogy Test
To take the eulogy test, you need only some time for contemplation. This important test has only one question: How would you like your life to be described at your funeral?

Would your eulogizer say, "He really knew how to make a buck. We all admired his impressive earning ability."
Or would they say, "Here lies a man who devoted all his free time to reality shows. He built his life's schedule around them. "
I doubt if either of these dreams sound like what you really want. True greatness does not come from our earnings or from some of the other pursuits that we give priority. The topics of discussion by the dying rarely include these meaningless subjects.
-David Leonhardt, The Happy Guy [thehappyguy.com], from David DeFord's upcoming book "I Wish to Be Useful: A Guide to Living with Greater Significance"
Fri 23 Sep 2005 - Huston Smith on why Christianity spread so quickly
Christianity swept the Roman Empire, he believes, because it "suddenly and dramatically" lifted "three intolerable burdens" from humanity: guilt, fear ---- including the fear of death ---- and narrow concentration on one's own ego.
[nctimes.com article about Huston Smith's new book "The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition"]
Thu 15 Sep 2005 - Inspired by Gandhi
Several months ago I started reading "Mohandas Gandhi : Essential Writings", edited by John Dear, 2002. These writings of Gandhi have enlivened my heart and soul. I've never read anything like it. I'm reading it again, and it is just as fresh the second time as the first. Gandhi's beliefs are beliefs that I want to follow. They strike a chord in my soul and melt my heart.
I've compiled a list of principles that Gandhi talks about that speak to me. Principles that I aspire to follow.

nonviolence
renunciation, voluntary suffering
prayer
truth
noncooperation with evil
service to others
fearlessness
focus on means, forget about the ends

I was surprised by Gandhi's nonviolence ideal. I knew that he advocated nonviolence, but I didn't realize it was to the extent of all areas and situations. This was like a light going off in my being. No longer do I need to make educated judgements about when violence is appropriate. It is never appropriate. Violence breeds violence. Only voluntary suffering and love for all people can melt the hearts of those who do evil deeds.
Renunciation is difficult for me to accept in a society where materialism encourages me to want more and more, and to find my solace in money and things that money can buy. But it feels right. The empty feelings that eventually come after trying to find happiness in things are slowly teaching me that the real happiness lies in my heart and in my exchanges with other people.
Thu 15 Sep 2005 - We're in the Oregonian newspaper!
There's an article about Sara and I in today's Oregonian newspaper. If you came to our web sites because of the article, send us an email, we'd like to hear from you! Robbie:

Sara:

How did this article come about? Well, one day back in August I got an email out of the blue from Melissa L. Jones, a writer for the Oregonian, wondering if she could write an article about Sara and me. She writes an article each week about somebody in the Gresham area for the Thursday paper. She was looking for someone to write about, so she searched on Google for "interesting people in Gresham", and my web site was one of the web sites that came up! Of course, the fact that my web site came up in the search has nothing to do with whether or not anyone really thinks I'm interesting, but simply because one of my web pages has the words "interesting", "people", and "Gresham" in it. So that's how we got our 15 minutes of fame. :-)
Thu 15 Sep 2005 - "When God Made Me" by Neil Young
Saw some of the "Shelter from the Storm" TV show last Friday that was raising money for Hurricane Katrina victims. I was moved by this Neil Young song that he sung:
WHEN GOD MADE ME Was He thinking about my country, or the colour of my skin? Was He thinking about my religion, and the way I worshipped Him? Did He create just me in his image, or every living thing? When God made me. When God made me. Was He planning only for believers, or for those who just had faith? Did He envision all wars that were fought in his name? Did He say there was only one way to be close to Him? When God made me. When God made me. Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me. When God made me. When God made me. Did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did He give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did He give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man? When God made me. When God made me. When God made me.

Thu 15 Sep 2005 - Michael Moore's aid for Hurricane Katrina victims
I found this grass roots effort by Michael Moore to help Hurricane Katrina victims inspirational.
Tue 13 Sep 2005 - Google search tips
Wildcard * search operator:
Try [vitamin * is good for *] or [the parachute was invented by *]
[Reference]
Tue 20 Sep 2005, Mon 12 Sep 2005 - Charities
With Hurricane Katrina and organizations asking for donations, I wonder which charities are good charities to donate to and which are not. I recall having heard that Heifer International is a very good charity, And Project Censored has a story of how the American Cancer Society is a relatively bad charity (only a small percentage of the money goes to cancer victims, they don't do much cancer prevention awareness, and the board members are tied to companies that make money from treating cancer).
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance (give.org) is a web site that evaluates charities.
Forbes list of best charities evaluates 200 large charities based on three criteria:
1) Charitable commitment indicates how much of total expenses went for the stated charitable purpose, excluding management, overhead and fundraising. The average is 85%.
2) Fundraising efficiency measures the share of gifts after subtracting fundraising expenses. The average is 89%.
3) Donor dependency is the operating shortfall (outlays minus non-gift income) as a percentage of gifts. A number over 100% means that the charity more than consumed all your donations keeping itself going; a negative number means that it would have run a surplus even without a dime of donations.
From the above Forbes article, here's a list of 10 charities that they think are good (in alphabetical order):
American Kidney Fund -- This charity defrays the unreimbursed portions of kidney dialysis treatment, such as medicine and transportation. Last year 42,000 low-income patients received an average $1,000 in grants, for a total of $41 million.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America -- This century-old agency, with 471 chapters nationwide, has found its niche: mentoring troubled children of single parents. With donations running strong, it has set an ambitious goal of serving 1 million kids in 2010--four times its present load.
Brother's Brother Foundation -- Anesthesiologist Robert Hingson founded this nonprofit to run Third World immunization and health programs. Now headed by son Luke Hingson, BBF operates largely with donated material.
First Book -- The simple goal: Give poor children their own first new book. This nonprofit gets volumes from publishers, then enlists local volunteers to hand them out. In two years it has distributed nearly 15 million books.
Heifer International -- This hunger-fighting nonprofit arranges to give needy folk in 47 countries breeding animals--cows, chickens, water buffalo, even bees--plus training. The recipients agree to donate the first-born female to others.
International Rescue Committee -- Started in 1933 to help those fleeing Hitler, the IRC is the grande dame of organizations assisting refugees and displaced persons. Recently, it has played a significant role in Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International -- This charity states flatly that its goal is a cure for diabetes and its complications. Extremely efficient financially, this national single-illness research nonprofit pumps more than $100 million to scientists.
Marine Toys for Tots -- Started by a Marine Corps reservist in 1947 to funnel toys to needy kids, this charity still operates with official Marine Corps support.
Northwest Medical Teams International -- This medical relief group doesn't rely on clinics. It also makes house calls in disaster areas using mobile medical teams.
Salvation Army -- Essentially its own religious movement, this helper of the down-and-out is the second-biggest gift recipient ($999 million) on our list. Meager salaries for officers and large numbers of volunteers help keep efficiencies very high and overhead low.
Mon 12 Sep 2005 - Rewards
"Reward yourself right now for something you did good today, something you want to do more of. Rewards are the oldest form of motivation, and they still work and they will work on you. Who better to motivate you than yourself, so start doing more of what you want to do more of and start rewarding that behavior right now."
-David Leonhardt, The Happy Guy [thehappyguy.com]
Fri 9 Sep 2005 - What have I been putting off?
I like this question:
"What's the one thing I've been putting off that, if I did it, I would feel the weight of the world lifted from me?"
[Mike Brescia ]
It helps me focus on what is important, and helps to get past the fear.
Wed 31 Aug 2005 - People I Know
One of the joys of having my web site has been getting emails from relatives who came across my site while searching for somebody's name (I have a list of names of my relatives from doing genealogy). I have long wanted to put a list of people that I know on my web site, to help solicit more email from friends, classmates, and co-workers that I haven't heard from in a long time. So here it is, people I know, a work in progress.
Tue 30 Aug 2005 - Positive thinking and letting go
Somehow I came across todayisyourdaytowin.com and signed up for the free email course. I'm surprised to say that it is inspiring me. I'm surprised because when I was in high school, I read a lot of self-help books and kind of overdosed on them and came to see them as lacking something. I read books on neuro-linguistic programming (e.g., Anthony Robbins), motivation (e.g., Og Mandino), "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, positive thinking books by Norman Vincent Peale and others, and books on affirmations. Since then, I've realized that while positive thinking has benefits, it is not beneficial to cover up negative emotions and thoughts and think that they will just go away. Acceptance is very important. It's important to accept what you have, to accept the past and the present. But now I'm seeing some value of using positive thinking for dealing with the present and planning for the future.
Each day, the course has an "empowering question". One that I like is this one:

"What am I willing to give up in order to reach my objective?"
I like this, because I think too often I work on acquiring, and forget about the importance of getting rid of and letting go.
Wed 17 Aug 2005 - My new blog
Rather than dealing with a "formal" blog engine, like my old blog that my friend Howard created for me, or with a free one, like rbednark.blogspot.com I decided to do one as simple as possible. A single-pager that I can edit with my favorite editor, vim. Vive la simplicite! :-) Here it is. No links to follow, no navigation to other pages needed!

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Here are my favorite quotations that I've been collecting over the last 10 years. --Robbie Bednark

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a person humanized or dehumanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
   -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832) [from Judy Ford's website] {Added 27 Oct 2005}
The problem with the Course is "students" have bantered it to pieces, hoping beyond hope, that discussion of its contents actually yields anything.
   --Jeanette Joy {Added 24 Oct 2005}
Be solution focused, not problem focused.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 21 Oct 2005}
Stop worrying about what others think.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 21 Oct 2005}
Happiness is more about serving others than about serving ourselves.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 20 Oct 2005}
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
   -William Shenstone [quoted by Mike Brescia] {Added 20 Oct 2005}
You can change yourself by changing your environment and changing your thoughts.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 19 Oct 2005}
If you focus your thoughts on empowering outcomes and ask yourself questions that give you answers that inspire you, then you'll find that your anxiety and panic attacks will reduce.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 19 Oct 2005}
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
   -Rabindranath Tagore, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 18 Oct 2005}
Planning is important, because it prepares your mind to be able to change if your plan doesn't work.
   -Niels Malotaux {Added 14 Oct 2005}
A fool is somebody who keeps doing the same thing and expects a better result.
   {Added 14 Oct 2005}
What has surprised you recently? Inspired you? Stirred your emotions? Focus on these things, and you may find that how you look at life changes.
   {Added 14 Oct 2005}
In some restaurants that serve fresh fish, they put a predator in the tank with the fish. This keeps them lively and they stay fresher. People also need challenges to keep themselves healthy and happy.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 14 Oct 2005}
Imagine that a few years from now, you're sitting around, you say to the person next to you, "I was watching TV about 6 years ago at home. Boy, what a night!" Breathe life into yourself instead and stop being scared of just one thing... just for today. Do what you're scared of and you'll look back afterwards and you'll see you grew right then.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 14 Oct 2005}
Today is the day that you make great progress. Tomorrow is just a dream. "Right Now" is the only currency you've got.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 14 Oct 2005}
Listen to people who've achieved what you want to achieve. Seek them out. If you don't know any, then find them. Read their books. Study what you need to learn.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 14 Oct 2005}
When bad things happen, there is always some kind of lesson in them. Either you uncover the lesson or you don't. It's as simple as that. If you don't, then you'll continue to get P.O.'d at the most inane stuff, you'll carry on with your little grudges, you'll fight fire with fire, and your state of mind immediately after these mental episodes will prevent you from performing at your best and holding any peace in your mind.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 14 Oct 2005}
What you are doing is not good. Instead of drilling one deep well, you are drilling ten shallow wells. It is the deep wells that reach water.
   -(told to Huston Smith by a guru in an Indian monastery, regarding his sampling of religions) [from this article] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
   -Spanish proverb [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Than tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense has been found
By some to be the most profound.
   -Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
Helping others is why we were put here on earth, not to play and entertain ourselves all day. If you don't help others, you have no purpose. You don't need tremendous strength and capabilities to make yourself useful. You just need the ability to care.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 13 Oct 2005}
People usually stop being enthusiastic about helping out and serving others when they feel they are under-appreciated.
   -Robbie Bednark [based on a quoted by Mike Brescia {Added 13 Oct 2005}
One of the most amazing things ever said is Jesus' statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all.
   -Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D. [quoted on todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
Every human being has conflict. You need to find what's in here to resolve it... Once you have conflict, it is something solid. You need an element to dissolve it. Good is an element. It can dissolve it. Good is like water.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
I meditate from my heart. In my meditation, I must find love, for I know love exists in my heart. The word forgive -- it does not matter what anyone has done to me or whatever has happened to me since childhood. This word "forgive" means if I meditate from my heart, I will always be able to forgive. I must forgive myself for having the negative things in me, for all the negative things I have done.... Here, this is where I stand physically. My presence with me allows me to forgive. I see all this as one. I represent my heart. I am the heart.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
Returning to innocence seems impossible, doesn't it? The word pure requires a lot of filtering. Spiritual cultivation is like layers and layers of filtering... in the course of your life, yours is to find the purity of your own heart. Each day is important. Every day that you wake up, it is important. One day at a time. Know that you want to find the pureness of your own heart. It's there. All you have to do is see it and function from it.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 13 Oct 2005}
Whenever something nice happens, write it down and look at it through a magnifying glass. See how your perspective can make things better. When something bad happens to you, write it down and look at it through binoculars "backwards".
   -David Leonhardt {Added 13 Oct 2005}
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
   -Lebanese proverb [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 11 Oct 2005}
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
   -Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 11 Oct 2005}
The paradox of our time is that we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space.
   - {Added 11 Oct 2005}
Your beliefs control your attitudes and emotions, which directly control your actions.
   -Mike Brescia {Added 05 Oct 2005}
The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.
   -Blaine Lee [quoted on todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 05 Oct 2005}
Why not use your feelings of fear as a trigger to be courageous?
   -modified version of a quote from Mike Brescia on todayisyourdaytowin.com {Added 05 Oct 2005}
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.
   -W. Edwards Deming [seen quoted on http://home.att.net/~quotesexchange/wedwardsdeming.html] {Added 05 Oct 2005}
Mistakes are necessary to living a happy, successful life
   -Mike Brescia todayisyourdaytowin.com {Added 05 Oct 2005}
Learn from the mistakes of others.
   -Mike Brescia todayisyourdaytowin.com {Added 05 Oct 2005}
Do that which you fear. Be brave. Be courageous. That is where the growth and happiness is. Do this enough times, and you will find that there is nothing to fear.
   -Robbie Bednark [inspired by "what goes in must come out" quote from todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 05 Oct 2005}
Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.
   -Georges Carpentier [quoted on todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 05 Oct 2005}
What goes in must come out. Read books that give you hope, watch uplifting movies, listen to relaxing music, look at beautiful art, think good thoughts, eat healthy food, do good deeds, spend time in nature, and associate with people that inspire you.
   -Robbie Bednark [inspired by "what goes in must come out" quote from todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 05 Oct 2005}
Drink from good books.
   -John Wooden, basketball coach [quoted on todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 05 Oct 2005}
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
   -Jean-Jacques Rousseau [quoted in p. 55, "O - The Oprah Magazine", Oct 2005 {Added 04 Oct 2005}
Think in ways you've never thought before
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you've ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats
--
Think that someone may bring
a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged;
or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake,
and he's carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom
you've never seen.
--
When someone knocks on the door,
think that he's about
To give you something large:
tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to
work all the time or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down
no one will die.
   -Robert Bly, from books "Morning Poems" and "Eating the Honey of Words" [quoted on p. 63, "O - The Oprah Magazine", Sept 2005 {Added 04 Oct 2005}
The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we have limbered up our imagination, we continue to think as though we had stayed home. We have not really budged a step until we take up residence in someone else's point of view.
   -John Erskine [quoted on todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 04 Oct 2005}
Self-realization internally is having a strong belief in who I am, that I have this good inside of me. Each time I function, yes, it's always good. The word God has different meanings for different people. God is small and very big. In order to see the big God, embrace the small God (points to his heart). The big one takes care of itself. Embrace the small one and say, this is God. Focus on what you need to do. Do what you need to do. It will be there.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 3 Oct 2005}
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
   -Albert Einstein, quoted in [thehappyguy.com] {Added 3 Oct 2005}
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
   -Ambrose Bierce, quoted in [thehappyguy.com] {Added 3 Oct 2005}
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
   -Madame De Stael, writer (1766-1817) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 3 Oct 2005}
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
   -Henry Lytton Bulwer, diplomat and author (1801-1872) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 30 Sep 2005}
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
   -English proverb [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 30 Sep 2005}
If you cannot see light, make light. When we get stuck, we feel we cannot get out of it. But we can. You have to move yourself from here to there. You have a tremendous amount of power over yourself to move from here to there. I am responsible, and no one else is.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
Choice is a good thing. Follow your heart and do it. Who's to say it's a right or wrong choice? It may turn out well; it may turn out not well. Every human being makes mistakes. When they make mistakes, they think they're wrong, but if you don't make mistakes, you're not human...The heart is at the center of everything. If we put our hearts into something, we give our very best. It doesn't matter if it succeeds or fails; we give our best.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
Meditation helps us to center. It gives us the strength to be who we are.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
The path is for us to walk. The light is for us to shine on people.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
Christianity swept the Roman Empire, he believes, because it "suddenly and dramatically" lifted "three intolerable burdens" from humanity: guilt, fear - including the fear of death - and narrow concentration on one's own ego.
   -article "Huston Smith, famed scholar on world religions, focuses anew on his own faith of Christianity" by Richard N. Ostling, AP Religion Writer [http://www2.sbsun.com/news/ci_3056356]) {Added 29 Sep 2005}
...liberal Christianity has turned religion into mere morality, leaving churches with "nothing to offer their members except rallying cries to be good. ... The authority of religion has waned along with the mystery of the sacred."
   -article "Huston Smith, famed scholar on world religions, focuses anew on his own faith of Christianity" by Richard N. Ostling, AP Religion Writer [http://www2.sbsun.com/news/ci_3056356]) {Added 29 Sep 2005}
"Science is not omnicompetent, Our physical senses are not the only senses we have." As his book puts it: "No one has ever seen a thought. No one has ever seen a feeling. Yet our thoughts and feelings are where we primarily live our lives." "Discounting invisible realities" is the "modern mistake" promoted by an intolerant secularism that says only empirical, scientific knowledge is valid.
   -article "Huston Smith, famed scholar on world religions, focuses anew on his own faith of Christianity" by Richard N. Ostling, AP Religion Writer [http://www2.sbsun.com/news/ci_3056356]) {Added 29 Sep 2005}
There is no end; there is only beginning. Don't think of the end, think of the beginning. Mo matter what journey you go on, take yourself along. Don't look too far; it's always there.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
How to relax? Don't think too much; laugh at everything; don't take things too seriously.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
See the best in people always. If you see the best in people, you bring out the best in yourself. If you see the worst in people, you bring out the worst in yourself. See the best. It is very easy to see the bad in people. But it takes so much out of you to see the good...But you want to be good. If you want to BE good, see good.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 29 Sep 2005}
The only way you'll ever feel great inside your own skin and become successful at anything, especially in business, is if you decide to become of service to others. Period. Start taking an interest in other people instead of just yourself. Help out everywhere you can. You will be amazed. As if by magic you'll learn faster, your relationships will improve, your job will be more fun, money will probably cease to be a problem... in short everything will be better for you.
   -Mike Brescia [todayisyourdaytowin.com]) {Added 29 Sep 2005}
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
   -Herbert Spencer (seen in [todayisyourdaytowin.com]) {Added 29 Sep 2005}
No matter how big your suffering, make it small. You are the only one who can make it small.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 27 Sep 2005}
To learn about the unknown, learn about the unknown in you.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 27 Sep 2005}
When you close your eyes, the first thing you do is to embrace yourself.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 27 Sep 2005}
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
   --John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 27 Sep 2005}
Always be light so you can be the light for someone.
   -Wong Loh Sin See [transcribed by Aviva] {Added 23 Sep 2005}
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
   -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Sep 2005}
There was an old man who sat next to the road and greeted people who entered and exited just outside his small village. When travelers came in, often they would ask what kind of people were in the town. The man responded by asking them what the people were like in the town they just left. If the traveler said the people were terrific, the man told them that he'd find the people in this town were much the same. If the traveler said the other town had horrible people in it, the man said that they'd find the people here much the same.
   -from [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 20 Sep 2005}
People believe what they want to believe.
   -Julius Caesar [quoted in interview with Huston Smith] {Added 19 Sep 2005}
... If I have no other qualities, I can succeed with love alone. Without it I will fail though I possess all the knowledge and skills in the world.
   -Og Mandino, "The Greatest Salesman in the World", [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 19 Sep 2005}
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
   -Mark Twain [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 19 Sep 2005}
Benjamin Franklin made a list of 13 virtues that he valued but did not possess. He worked on only one virtue at a time, noting when he messed up, and when he succeeded in using the virtue. He made turning himself into a person who possessed that virtue his mission and did not worry about any of the other 12 until he had mastered the first one.
   -Mike Brescia [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 19 Sep 2005}
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
   -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 19 Sep 2005}
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
   -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 19 Sep 2005}
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
   -Edmund Burke, statesman and writer (1729-1797) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 Sep 2005}
Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least.
   -Charley Willey [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 14 Sep 2005}
Practice learning and enjoying only one thing at a time, or else the first thing will be missed, as it gets plowed over by the next one. We are always given enough time for everything we need.
   -Robbie Bednark, inspired by a quote from Mike Brescia [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 12 Sep 2005}
As statistics show, most of what is written in the world's greatest self-help and how-to books goes unread by the buyers. And the material that is read is typically not used. Most people just aren't self-disciplined enough to take a bit, study it, master it then move on to the next level. That's why universities are so valuable and so expensive... they do it right. They give you a little bit, test you and then give you some more -- building on your knowledge after you've learned the easier stuff.
   -Mike Brescia [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 12 Sep 2005}
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
   -George Horace Lorimar [from todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 9 Sep 2005}
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
   -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 9 Sep 2005}
Good humor is tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
   -Grenville Kleiser [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 6 Sep 2005}
Forgiveness does not judge. It does not say that what was done was right or wrong. It simply acknowledges that a mistake was made and it is OK.
   -David Leonhardt {Added 6 Sep 2005}
You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view.
   -Harper Lee, writer (1926- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 6 Sep 2005}
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
   -Thomas Paine, philosopher and writer (1737-1809) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Sep 2005}
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
   -Dave Barry, author and columnist (1947- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Sep 2005}
What am I willing to give up in order to reach my objective?
   -Mike Brescia [todayisyourdaytowin.com] {Added 30 Aug 2005}
You can tell whether a person is clever by their answers. You can tell whether a person is wise by their questions.
   -Naguib Mahfouz, writer (1911- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 29 Aug 2005}
The less justified a person is in claiming excellence for their own self, the more ready they are to claim all excellence for their nation, their religion, their race or their holy cause. A person is likely to mind their own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, they take their mind off their own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
   -Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 29 Aug 2005}
Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.
   -B.R. Myers, author (1963- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 29 Aug 2005}
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
   -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 29 Aug 2005}
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas, and not for things themselves.
   -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 29 Aug 2005}
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
   -Henry van Dyke, poet (1852-1933) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 19 Aug 2005}
Change is exciting. A new car. A new romance. A promotion. Pumpkin pie for breakfast. You just can't beat change.
Change is terrifying. Facing a new boss. Losing a love. Throwing out that tattered old high-school shirt.
Come to think of it, change is exactly what you want it to be: exciting or terrifying. So why not make change exciting?
   -David Leonhardt {Added 16 Aug 2005}
There is only one way that I can think of to become happy, and that is to choose to be happy. Everything else is just noise and distractions, and choosing to be happy involves cutting out the noise and ignoring the distractions.
   -David Leonhardt (I paraphrased his actual quote) {Added 12 Aug 2005}
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
   - George Soros [http://en.wikiquote.org] {Added 12 Aug 2005}
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.
   -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 11 Aug 2005}
Every now and then I am approached by someone who says they want to get out of a rut. Or by someone who thinks life could be better. They want me to tell them what to do. So I ask them where they want to be, and I feel a bit like the Cheshire cat:
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
   -David Leonhardt {Added 11 Aug 2005}
...this neurotic momentum into the next as if the next would provide something that the moment couldn't.
   - Alan Clements, from book "Natural Freedom: The Dharma Beyond Buddhism" {Added 10 Aug 2005}
They say that's just the way it is,
Some things never change.
But don't you believe them.
   - Bruce Hornsby, "That's Just the Way It Is" (song) {Added 4 Aug 2005}
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon.
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith.
Where there is despair, let me sow hope,
Where there is darkness, let me sow light.
And where there is sadness, let me sow joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
It is in giving that we receive,
and it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
   - Saint Francis [quoted in thehappyguy.com] {Added 4 Aug 2005}
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
   - John Templeton [ quoted in thehappyguy.com] {Added 3 Aug 2005}
Fatigue is the best pillow.
   -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
   -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world.
   -Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
   -Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (1899-1989) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
   -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
Literature encourages tolerance - bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
   -Northrop Frye, writer (1912-1991) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
   -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
   -Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901-1978) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 2 Aug 2005}
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
   -James Baldwin, writer (1924-1987) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 15 Jul 2005}
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
   -Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (1632-1677) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 08 Jul 2005}
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
   -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 07 Jul 2005}
Worrying is like praying for what you don't want.
   -(heard from Morgine Jurdan) {Added 07 Jul 2005}
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
   -Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 05 Jul 2005}
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral.
   -Samuel P. Ginder, US navy captain [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 05 Jul 2005}
Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness.
   -John Milton, poet (1608-1674) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 14 Jun 2005}
What's done to children, they will do to society.
   -Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 15 Jun 2005}
If one
Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs
Attraction; from attraction grows desire,
Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds
Recklessness; then the memory--all betrayed--
Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind,
Till purpose, mind, and humanity are all undone
   -Bhagavad Gita, 2nd chapter, quoted by Mohandas "Mahatma" K. Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiments in Truth : An Autobiography", 1957. [p. 53 of "Mohandas Gandhi : Essential Writings", selected by John Dear, 2002] {Added 15 Jun 2005}
...whatever is possible for me is possible even for a child, and I have sound reasons for saying so. The instruments of the quest of truth are as simple as they are difficult. They may appear quite impossible to an arrogant person, and quite possible to an innocent child. Seekers after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but seekers after truth should so humble themselves that even the dust could crush them. Only then, and not until then, will they have a glimpse of truth.
   -Mohandas "Mahatma" K. Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiments in Truth : An Autobiography", 1957. [p. 52 of "Mohandas Gandhi : Essential Writings", selected by John Dear, 2002] {Added 15 Jun 2005}
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.
   -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 14 Jun 2005}
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
   -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 8 Jun 2005}
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
   -Rwandan Proverb [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 6 Jun 2005}
Every single human culture that had a written history had these two steps within them. The first is a repetition, and that repetition can be a prayer. The other is a disregard of other thoughts when they come to mind.
   --Dr. Herbert Benson, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, referring to study he did on benefits of meditation/prayer, quoted on TV show "Burt Wolf Travels and Traditions : The Shrine at Guadalupe Mexico City", 2004. {Added 1 Jun 2005}
You can think about a sacred place, or you can think with it.
   -quoted by Burt Wolf on one of his TV shows {Added 1 Jun 2005}
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
   -Hans Hofmann, painter (1880-1966) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 31 May 2005}
I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
   -Pietro Aretino, satirist and dramatist (1492-1556) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 31 May 2005}
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
   -Hosea Ballou, preacher (1771-1852) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 May 2005}
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
   -Cato the Elder, statesman, soldier, and writer (234-149 BCE) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 May 2005}
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
   -Paul Dudley White, physician (1886-1973) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 25 May 2005}
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
   -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because they have been wronged; they want to be healed because they have been hurt.
   -G.K. Chesterton, author (1874-1936) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
   -Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
   -Saadi, poet (1184-1291) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
It is human nature to hate the person whom you have hurt.
   -Publius Cornelius Tacitus, historian (c.55-c.120) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, God must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
   -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
   -Thomas Pynchon, writer (1937- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
   -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
   -Woody Allen, author actor, and filmmaker (1935- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
   -Publilius Syrus, writer (c. 1st century BCE) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
   -Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
   -Madame de Stael, writer (1766-1817) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!
   -Henri Frederic Amiel philosopher and writer (1821-1881) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
   -Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- ) [A-Word-A-Day] {Added 16 May 2005}
To know enough's enough
Is enough to know.
   -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching [chapter 46, "Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way", by Lao Tzu, version by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1997] from my friend Howard Abram's quote collection {Added 5 May 2005}
You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich... What is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it?... It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
   -Isabelle Allende, "In Giving I Connect With Others", Apr 4, 2005, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4568464 {Added 6 Apr 2005}
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
   -Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor and political activist (1928- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the person of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
   -William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Soon silence will have passed into legend. People have turned their backs on silence. Day after day they invent machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster their egos.
   -Jean Arp, artist and poet (1887-1948) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
   -W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
And Silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.
   -Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
   -French proverb [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
   -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.
   -Horace Mann, educational reformer (1796-1859) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch-starved.
   -Diane Ackerman, writer (1948- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border.
   -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life - the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
   -Hubert Horatio Humphrey, US Vice President (1911-1978) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
   -Marya Mannes, writer (1904-1990) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.
   -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.
   -Chinese proverb [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
   -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
   -H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Good deeds are the best prayer.
   -Serbian proverb [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
   -Emo Phillips, comedian, actor (1956- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
   -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900) [Word-A-Day] {Added 1 Apr 2005}
Mahatma Gandhi was once leading a large protest across India. A few days into the march, he found out that there was going to be a great deal of violence, and he abruptly announced that he was ending the march. Some of his followers and supporters said, "But Gandhiji, you can't call off this march. Many people, from all over India, left their jobs and came great distances to be on this march." Gandhi replied, "Only God knows absolute truth. I just know relative truth. My allegiance must be to truth, not consistency."
   -from Mickey Lemle, "Truth and Perception", from Parabola magazine, p. 47, Nov 2003, Vol 28, No 4 {Added 31 Mar 2005}
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too -- a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.
   -Huston Smith http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/1997/11/snell.html (Huston Smith, from interview by Marilyn Snell, "Mother Jones" magazine, Nov/Dec 1997 issue) {Added 24 Mar 2005}
It is always the secure who are humble.
   -G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
Patience is also a form of action.
   -Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
   -Abigail Van Buren, advice columnist (1918- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig -- an animal easily as intelligent as a dog -- that becomes the Christmas ham.
   -Michael Pollan, professor and writer (1955- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
   -Stephen Swid, executive [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.
   -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.
   -Lao-Tzu, philosopher (6th century BCE) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
   -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (1837-1921)
   [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
   -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
   -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
   -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"
   -k.d. lang, singer (1961- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 23 Mar 2005}
The world doesn't lack for good stories. The world lacks for good storytellers.
   -Malcolm Gladwell, from interview by David Weich at Powell's Books web site http://www.powells.com/authors/gladwell.html {Added 22 Mar 2005}
Forgetting this familiar world of fact is a necessary step toward remembering the truths that matter. We need to go into a dark theater, shutting out bright life, and tune into the mystery of the movie. We need to go to bed, turn out the light, and have a dream that will give a hint about the theater we lived during the day. We need to shut our eyes in the church, temple, or mosque, and in that gesture of forgetting remember who we are at the deepest level.
   -Thomas Moore, "Songs of Unforgetting", from Parabola magazine, p. 9, Nov 2003, Vol 28, No 4 {Added 22 Mar 2005}
A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose.
   -Chinese proverb [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
   -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
   -Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965) [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.
   -Fred Allen [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
A person is not old until their regrets take the place of dreams.
   -Yiddish proverb [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
   -Theodore M. Hesburgh, educator (1917- ) [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
   -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
   -Herbert V. Prochnow, banker (1897-1998) [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before;
second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life;
third, because although they took my all, it was not much;
and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.
   -Matthew Henry, minister (1662-1714) [Word-A-Day] {Added 22 Mar 2005}
People think in frames. If the facts do not fit a frame, the frame stays and the facts bounce off.
   -George Lakoff {Added 18 Mar 2005}
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
   -Maggie Kuhn http://www.dailycelebrations.com/080303.htm {Added 16 Mar 2005}
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