4 hours ago by Jon Mertz

Our family farm has mostly disappeared. The land still flows, but the homestead signs are almost gone. When I went to our family farm last year, I snapped this picture. These grain bins are the last reminders that a family worked this land. One of the odd things about them is they were present befor ...

14 hours ago by Ron Irvine

“…Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on t ...

19 hours ago by DR1665

Leveraging a lack of buzzwords. There was a department re-org at the end of 2010. The project team I’d been on since the summer of 2009 was disbanded and I was assigned to the newly formed Office of Knowledge Management. Looking back, we certainly had the right stuff, but none of us had come from th ...

20 hours ago by Ulrich

With the present WoM, I'm returning to a theme I have touched upon in previous posts ( Wutbürger, German funk). This time, I'm introducing a term that succinctly captures the phenomenon in question. Staat means "state" and Verdrossenheit is a condition that could be described as a persistent ill hum ...

1 day ago by Lynne

I’m always a little reluctant to recycle art activities because some of the women have done them before and I don’t want them to be bored. But this week I learned the value of repeating a therapeutic art piece as a marker of healing and transformation for some. For others it was a first time explora ...

1 day ago by Administrator

Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages (5th Edition) Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages—this text explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. I ...

1 day ago by The Redhead

I am currently reading Dan Milman " No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life" Another book that is helping me on my own path. Because the key to my own healing lies with me...no one else. Some rules to live by...and to remember. 1. We get only one body. We may like it or not, bu ...

1 day ago by Infinite Authors

How do you stop the big things from having little meaning and the little things from getting too big and messy? Confused? Me too. There was a time when literary convention dictated that only certain subjects were fit for poetry. You could write about love, death and beauty, but if you wanted to tack ...

1 day ago by Noman

It has been awhile since I read Pope John Paul II's encyclical on the relationship between faith and reason, Fides et Ratio (1998). Praying my way through it again, I came across a series of passages littered with pithy zingers that I wanted to share. While discussing each man's journey in search of ...

1 day ago

MEANINGからDVDとシングルのリリース情報が飛び込んできた！ 映像作品（DVD）では結成当初（高田雄一加入前）から頻繁に行なっているアジアツアー（マレーシア・インドネシア・シンガポール・フィリピ ン）、Ken Yokoyamaのアリーナ公演に大抜擢された時の模様、そして1stアルバムレコ発等々、MEANINGのこれまでを全網羅した映像作品になっているとのこと。 シングル（CD）は、驚きの長編作を書き上げた。音はメタリック且つハードコアな仕上がりになっているが、彼らが垣間見せていたメロディア スな部分をこれまでになく明確に打ち出し、10分という時間を感じさせない大作だというので楽しみで仕方 ...