Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Ham and Malbec

    One of the epiphanies for me over this past holiday season was the discovery of a new food and wine pairing: ham and Malbec.  I’ve never been a big fan of ham, and one of the detractions for me was that I could never find a big red wine that complemented that meat.  I was…

  • Social Marketing: Promotional Considerations

    I enjoyed an interesting conversation with Chris at NWEN Pub Night this past Thursday, wherein he told me about a company called Tremor, a spinoff of Procter & Gamble, which claims to have "cracked the code and leverage the power of word-of-mouth advocacy, to move sales, attitude and brand equity for our clients."  The basic…

  • Inspiration, Aspiration and Perspiration

    When I first started this weblog, my intent was to focus on content relating to my professional activities, which I summarized as "ruminations on people, places and things, and the potential [digital] connections between them" in my weblog catchphrase.  I am still interested in these topics, and intend to continue blogging on them, but I…

  • Love and Logic: Learning and Growing through Mistakes

    The night after reading about the art of making mistakes wakefully, I attended the first class of a four-class seminar on Love and Logic, wonderfully facilitated by Cindy Horst.  The premise of this approach to parenting a child is to "empower him/her to make his/her own decisions, live with his/her mistakes and grow through the…

  • A Path With Heart: Wakefully Making Mistakes Along the Way

    After returning from my Warrior Monk retreat, I started re-reading "A Path With Heart: A Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life", a book written by Jack Kornfield, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, that offers a path to greater mindfulness and integrity through meditation and other spiritual…

  • Boxing and Belly Dancing, Boldness and Dreams

    I rarely watch television, but I was captivated by the Ken Burns documentary film, “Unforgivable Blackness”, profiling the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, shown this week on PBS. I regularly listen to NPR (and yes, I’m a member of both KCTS and KPLU), and Wednesday…

  • Warrior Monk: A Spiritual and Soulful Retreat

    I attended a four-day retreat, Warrior Monk, before the holidays, with the goal of achieving greater clarity, courage and commitment in following my heart. The workshop "welcomes those in transition and those seeking their next level of authentic growth, healing and spiritual connection," and includes a combination of meditation, poetry reading and writing, chanting, singing…

  • Socially Responsible Investing: Making Money vs. Making Meaning

    Paul Hawken, founder of the Natural Capital Institute, recently asked “Is Your Money Where Your Heart Is? (The Truth about SRI Funds)” in an Evergreen Monthly article criticizing many of the so-called "socially responsible investment" (SRI) mutual funds for a lack of standards, definitions and [social] accountability.  Investors who want to put their money where…

  • Oprah on The Joy of Connecting (and Disconnecting)

    The December issue of O: The Oprah Magazine has a special section on the benefits of connecting with and relating to one another … and (of course) a number of suggestions for ways that people can connect — or disconnect — with others.  I felt more than slightly self-conscious going through the checkout line of…

  • Life and Safety, Champagne and Strawberries, Candles and Torches

    I took Meg to get her wrist cast off at Bellevue Bone and Joint Physicians recently, where they had the following quotation posted: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Champagne in one hand, strawberries…