Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Three month update on my elbow Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment

    On Monday, I had a followup visit with Dr. Mishra to evaluate and discuss progress and prospects for the restored health of my right elbow, three months after my treatment with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP). One week after treatment, things had gotten worse (though, as Dr. Mishra had warned, this is often the case shortly…

  • Celebrating the Future Within … Everyone?

    Amy and I attended the Jubilee Women’s Center‘s 10th Annual Benefit Breakfast on Wednesday, which had the inspiring title "Celebrating the Future Within" … and a correspondingly inspiring program that included several women recounting their challenges, and now the Jubilee Women’s Center helped them rise to meet those challenges. Our good friend, Mary, is on…

  • Blessed Unrest: Environmental and Social Justice for All … or Bust!

    In his latest book (and video), environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author Paul Hawken achieves a remarkable balance between breadth and depth in arguing that in order to restore environmental and social balance on this earth, we must strive for both, or we will achieve neither. Noting that "we are nature", and thus however we treat…

  • Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments …

    A reader using the name "Cara Fletcher" posted the following comment on the first blog entry I posted about my wife’s anal cancer (Anal Cancer: A Real Pain in the Butt): The anal cancer should be really a pain in the butt and I am sure it’s not very pleasant.I now have to deal with…

  • Seeing What I Want To See: Whale Watching … and WMD

    Near the start our recent family vacation along the Oregon coast, we walked up Cannon Beach into the downtown area. During our northerlywalk, we passed several groups of people on the beach who appeared to be deeply engrossed in something to the southwest. I have trained myself, over the years, to ignore spectacles, as to…

  • Don’t Take Anything Personally: Commenting on Commenting

    I recite Don Miguel Ruiz' Four Agreements as part of my daily mantra practice (mantras are positive affirmations reflecting qualities I want to cultivate in my self). I have already blogged about the ambivalence with which I sometimes view his Fourth Agreement, Always Do Your Best. I recently ruminated about my ambivalence regarding his Third…

  • An update on my elbow, one month after Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatment

    I had my one-month followup visit with Dr. Mishra today, to review progress since undergoing a platelet rich plasma (PRP) treatment for chronic elbow tendonitis (or, based on an earlier comment, tendonosis) on July 12. I’d posted an update at the 1-week mark, and given all the comments I’ve received on the blog and via…

  • On Hineini, Team Spirit and Recognition

    I’ve been reading a soon-to-be-published book on Digital Dharma: A User’s Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere, by Steven Vedro, which proposes an integration of spirituality and technology based on the seven chakras. I hope to post an entry on the book after I finish it, but one of the many gems I’ve encountered…

  • Coasting in Oregon: Notes from a Family Vacation along the Oregon Coast

    We spent the first week in August traveling down the Oregon coast, covering 1300 miles in 8 days, stopping in Cannon Beach, Florence and Gold Beach then dipping down into Crescent City, California, before heading inland to Crater Lake, with a stopover in Eugene on the way back home to Woodinville, Washington. The scenery in…

  • A New Generation of Proactive Displays

    We launched our new proactive display application at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto two weeks ago. The application – provisionally called the Context, Content and Community Collage – situates online content in a shared physical context to foster a greater sense of community, representing a convergence of the core themes of our Context, Content and…