A beautiful sunny day for my son's 10th birthday. # Deer everywhere http://post.ly/1AX99 # Snow on the mountains last night buy clear dawn this morning. http://yfrog.com/gq9jlj # Arrived by the shores of the Mississippi in central Minnesota. It's a surprisingly warm night. # http://yfrog.com/c8xqwxj sunset on the Mississippi River at Monticello MN. A balmy early Nov evening with a river swollen by fall rain. # First real snow on the mountains http://post.ly/1BOVm # Crisp morning on the Minnesota plains. Frost last night but warm sun again today. # No matter what happens, the sun arises every dawn. No matter how …
From our recent Art of Hosting on the banks of the Ottawa River, in Arnprior Ontario.
Lovely quote from David Kundtz: Stopping is doing nothing, as much as possible, for a definite period of time. Many more great quotes at Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going.
The gales of November come lashing. # Lovely train ride down to Seattle, working with my friend Teresa and following the midterm election carnage. # #openspace today w/ top researchers and policy people on adverse childhood experiences with an eye to making big policy changes in WA state. # Working at Cederbrook Lodge near SeaTac airport. Lovely space, free wifi, all the tools for a good #openspace http://bit.ly/cSeIdZ # Did you see the moon this morning? A thin shaving, old month fading, dying into a brilliant autumn sunrise. # At a Casey Foundation conference in Seattle on applying science to …
In Seattle yesterday I was listening to a keynote by Dr. Jack Shonkoff who is a breain researcher at Harvard with an interest in early childhood development. He said an interesting thing about American health care which kind of answers the question for me about what the US is good at. Many Americans who are opposed to public health care use the argument that people from other countries come to the United States for the world’s best treatment, surgery and acute care. No question that if you can afford it, the USA has the best. BUT – and this was …