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Murder in the City
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Murder in the City

By The Avett Brothers

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: It's a strange title and as with other Avett Brothers music this one uses humor to get your attention then delivers a message. Here, it is...
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Peace
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Peace

By Norah Jones

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: One of my favorite things about my favorite (only) daughter is that she shares music that she loves with me. The song came via email last...
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Freedom
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Freedom

By Amos Lee

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Here again this month I've chosen something a theme of non-violence. Lee is a wonderful singer/songwriter who I suppose fits somewhere in the folk/rock/country genres but...
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Fix You
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Fix You

By Coldplay

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: My daughter gave me this song a couple years ago. I teased her that it could be called the codependant song. But last Saturday, the song...
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Christmas Song
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Christmas Song

By Dave Matthews Band

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: This seeming song of faith from modern secular symbol Dave Matthews surprised me until I listened more closely. His point is what so many - faithful...
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Somewhere over the Rainbow
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Somewhere over the Rainbow

By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

October 15, 2019

Note: This medley version of Judy Garland and Louis Armstrong's most famous hits are done by a Hawaiian artist who died very young in 1997. The artist became famous by...
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Everybody's Had the Blues
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Everybody's Had the Blues

By B.B. King, Joe Louis Walker

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Blues became interesting to me when friend John Zingg turned me onto BB King in college thirty-some years ago. This song is written by one of...
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Liberte Frites
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Liberte Frites

By Kevin McCarthy, A Beautiful Loser

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: My own son reminds me in this song about the elusiveness of freedom. Kevin's been writing and performing for half his life, like most singer/songwriters with...
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Cannonball
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Cannonball

By Damien Rice

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Brilliant melody and a nice soft guitar. Rice's voice is a haunting and peaceful to me. The song asks us to learn from humility, particularly in...
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Balancing the World
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Balancing the World

By Eliot Morris

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This song was given to me by my daughter, Caitlin, who represents the point of the song – balance. The music and rhythm also bring me upbeat, just...
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May Newsletter: “Lessons Lived”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: These short stories wind up a 12-part series exploring the lessons I’ve learned in building a foundation. I realized in writing these twelve articles that I’m not embarrassed...
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Churchill by Himself
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Churchill by Himself

By Richard Langworth

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: I’ve often wondered how Winston Churchill could be so often quoted, and now I know. He wrote over 15,000,000 million published words – books, speeches, articles, letters and...
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May Article: “Long-Term Bull and Bear Markets” by Alex Shahidi

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The following article, written by Alex Shahidi and passed on to me by my partner, Jake Crocker, is an interesting take on long-term secular trends in the U.S....
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Me and Bobby McGee
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Me and Bobby McGee

By Kris Kristofferson

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: This is just a great throw-back song for me. A lot of memories come to me from this hitchhiker’s ballad of missing their mate, some of the best...
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March Newsletter: Good Passion/Bad Passion

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Author’s Note: This is the 10th in a series of 12 articles about the mistakes we’ve made building our foundation since 1997. I’ve decided the last two articles will be...
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March Case Study: The Great Little Box Company, Vancouver, BC

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: The company referenced in the article below “Investing in the Bottom of the Ladder,” by Jody Heymann, demonstrates that for-profit companies can do better by paying and treating...
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Boomerang
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Boomerang

By Michael Lewis

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This irreverent “journey through the new Third World” by Lewis is at once vastly entertaining and concerning. Within the past year or so, he visits Iceland, Ireland, Greece,...
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March Article of Interest: Bloomberg November 1-7, 2010 Charlie Rose with guests Jacob Hacker, Arianna Huffington, Steven Pearlstein and Kenneth Rogoff.

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Somehow this article from 16 months ago got lost in my clippings file and yet is still worth publishing. It’s a brief Charlie Rose interview with two academics...
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“List Power” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The most underutilized asset of ANY organization is their database. Usually when I say this, my audience looks at me like, “I thought your introduction said you were a Madison...
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June Quote:

October 15, 2019

"You've got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." Alvin Toffler
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Poke the Box
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Poke the Box

By Seth Godin

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: Seth’s first popular book, “Permission Marketing” was a guide for me as we ramped WorkPlace Media into a national permission database media. I’ve since enjoyed “Purple Cow” particularly...
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