"O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you restored my health." Psalm 30:2

The spirit is the true self.  Self-respect touches every aspect of our lives.  The hardest victory is over self.  Through self-doubt, we lose our sense of self-worth.  That's where the saying "health is wealth" comes from. 
In short, there's spiritual connection in good health.  It's not just physical.

It is worthless to talk about the interest of the community, without understanding the interest of the individual.

In every community, there is work to be done.  In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

People have been seeking spirituality somewhere else forever. 
Why?
...because we are not getting it from our communities or from each other.

Baseball is personal freedom. 

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and the spirit of the game.

Hideki Matsui homered and drove in six runs to tie a World Series record to give the New York Yankees the World Series Championship, and become the first Japanese-born player in America to be named World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP).

MEB KEFLEZIGHI, on Sunday, a child immigrant from war-torn Eritrea, and

one of 11 siblings in a village with no electricity, traveled an arduous journey

to finish first in the 2009 New York City marathon, after a decade of Kenyan

dominance, and carried years of American hopes with him across the finish line.

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

CARING is a reflex. It's natural and appropriate. You live and you help, that's all.
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When you are yourself. 

A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

A portable museum.  And why not?

It might be a better solution than what we have today, when museums struggle to find a strategy to fit into a community.

So is strategy dead?

Just live the strategy and ditch the 5-year plan.

Right now, the world is unpredictable.  The economic outlook is uncertain.  The world has changed.

If old-style strategy is not exactly dead, then it is hardly in the best of health.

The assumption that ALL MUSEUMs are tied to their present location is worth questioning.

GRAND-VISIONS have been filed away in some drawer or forgotten or rolled-up into a ball, until things are less scary, but that does little to prepare us for the future.

So process relevant data "signals"---can you say Gaia.com--- quickly and react to them.

VISION---is more about free flowing like this blog I'm writing today.

I'd like "future thinking" MUSEUMS and museum organizations to "live the strategize" (as opposed to just philosophize) on how to listen to "museum fans" rather than just "museum visitors." Because in that regard, sports teams have left museums far, far behind.

Portable Museum anyone?

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I consider myself a fortunate man to have a forum like Gaia for my curiosity. 

A blogger on Gaia is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. 

Where else can you delve into the life of our times? 

Consider the less fortunate "FROG PRINCESS."  

Disney's upcoming movie "The Princess and The Frog." 

Move over Snow White.  Make room for Disney's first black princess.  With America's first African-American President in the White House, Disney is counting on an African-American princess to be a big hit in Hollywood.

In this movie, a frog prince desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss from our new African-American princess, turns both prince and princess into frogs.

Will they be FORTUNATE? 

This film will open December 11, 2009 in the U.S.

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Like the weather, advice from your friends, some of it is good, some of it is bad, for it's always good weather, IT TAKES 2 TO MAKE A THING GO RIGHT.

Inside of everyone of us is a unique spirit that belongs only to us. 

This spirit doesn't bring home wages or take care of anybody, and it's completely free to want fantastic things---to run the four-minute mile, or to be a mystic.

This spirit has been shut up in a soundproof box for many years.

Most of us get caught up in a kind of bening servitude when our kids are little, when, for years, we hardly have time to look at a magazine.

Even when our kids grow up and their real demands have ended, we don't always remember how to stop serving or how to fill the new time we've been given.  We lose track of the years until one day something happens that jolts our sense of sameness and wakes us up to the realization that we've been drifting:  a friend dies unexpectedly, our first kid goes off to college and we realize we were working so hard we forgot to be around while she was growing up, or we just realize that we've reached the pinnacle of our career and there's nowhere else to go.

That's when the free spirit in you gets loose and starts saying, 

"Didn't you know there were 2 of us? ...There's me.  And there's me!"

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I want to teach the "CRAPification" of everything a.k.a. the "Good Enough" lifestyle.

Cheap, fast, simple ways of living.

We get our breaking news from blogs, we make spotty long-distance calls on Skype, we watch video on small computer screens rather than TVs, and more and more of us are carrying around dinky, low-powered netbook computers that are just "Good Enough" to meet our surfing and emailing needs.

What can I say Gaians?   The low end has never been riding higher.

When jazz burst out of the brothels of New Orleans in the 1920s and into the speakeasies of Chicago and New York, most Americans said it was a savage form of music that corrupted the values of society.

So what happened?

Well, in short, "Technology" happened.

The world has sped up, become more connected and a whole lot busier.  As a result, what people want from the products and services they buy is fundamentally changing.

We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished.  Having here and now is more important than having it perfect.

These changes run so deep and wide, they're actually altering what we mean when we describe a product or service as "high-quality."

And it's happening everywhere, as more sectors connect to the digital world, from medicine to the military, they too are seeing the rise of "Good Enough" tools like this message I'm sending you Gaians.

Suddenly, what seemed perfect is anything but, and products and services that appear mediocre at first glance are often the perfect fit.

As the worst recession in 75 years rolls on Gaians, it's the light and nimble products and services that are having an impact.

To some it looks like the CRAPIFICATION of everything.  But it's really an improvement.

And Gaians need to get used to it, because the "Good Enough" revolution has only begun.