This week my mother took my sister and me to see the play “Oleanna” by David Mamet. From the opening monologue, and throughout the entire eighty minute performance, I sat with my arms folded tightly across my chest, attempting to counter the extreme discomfort ignited and fueled by the controversial performance. My feelings grew with [...]
I have recently become an avid reader of Newsweek Magazine. I not only find the content covered rich and appealing, but I find the process – the way in which the content is presented – to be fairly unbiased and scientific, something typically rare in today’s world. I found this article especially interesting because of [...]
One of the things I value most in the world is authentic human expression. For me, Teddy Thompson not only has a beautiful voice and musical soul – deeply rooted in what seems to be a true and extremely personal love of music – but there is an incredibly genuine and honest quality to his [...]
As I was reading the New York Times a few weeks ago, I came across an article that wouldn’t normally hold my attention if it weren’t for the blatant absurdity of the situation it was exposing. For the last six years, I have been learning about systems and systems thinking, through an inductive process. This [...]
