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Losing Track of Our Dreams?
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Losing Track of Our Dreams?

By Tim McCarthy

March 29, 2021

About 20 times this year, I will conduct a 3-hour program called “Dream Sketch”. In a highly interactive setting, I help CEOs and business owners define more clearly what they...
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Multiply
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Multiply

By Jamie Lidell

March 29, 2021

Editor’s Note:  Having never watched “Gray’s Anatomy”, I had never head this song and it caught me tapping my feet and smiling.  Turns out Lidell’s been around quite a while...
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By Bill Bryson

March 29, 2021

Editor’s Comment:  Bryson is well known for his variety of interests, from his ambitious “A Short History of Nearly Everything” to a delightful childhood memoir I read called “The Life...
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How to Love America by David Brooks
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How to Love America by David Brooks

By Tim McCarthy

March 29, 2021

Like you, I’m sure, I love America, but the love has changed. I started out with the child version: America is the greatest and most powerful country on earth. That...
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Presence of the Lord
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Presence of the Lord

By Blind Faith

February 27, 2021

Editor’s note:   I ran into a live Clapton Winwood recording of this song and memories came flooding back.  Blind Faith was one of many “supergroups” who came and went...
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Non Sequitor
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Non Sequitor

By Tim McCarthy

February 27, 2021

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Dilbert on Entrepreneurship
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Dilbert on Entrepreneurship

By Tim McCarthy

January 31, 2021

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Let It Be Me
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Let It Be Me

By Ray LaMontagne

January 31, 2021

Editor’s note:  Continuing with our February theme of “asking for help”.  Favorite lyric: “That's when you need someone Someone that you, you can call When all your faith is gone...
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Dilbert by Scott Adams

By Tim McCarthy

December 31, 2020

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Give Me One Reason
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Give Me One Reason

By Tracy Chapman featuring Eric Clapton

December 31, 2020

Editor’s note: I’ve always been fond of native Clevelander, Tracy Chapman but never knew she performed her most famous song with Eric Clapton once. It’s an upbeat, toe-tapping piece made...
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Inclusion
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Inclusion

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2020

I worked for fourteen hours at the polls on November 3 rd . It was an unforgettable experience. Our home is just off a state park in a little resort...
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Squeeze Me
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Squeeze Me

By Carl Hiaasen

November 29, 2020

Buy Book Editor’s Note:   Warning: If you’ve not read his books, be forewarned that Hiaasen is a bit twisted.  But if you’re neither politically ardent nor easily offended, this...
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Midnight Reassurances
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Midnight Reassurances

By Tim McCarthy

November 29, 2020

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On Generosity by Walter Brueggemann
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On Generosity by Walter Brueggemann

By Tim McCarthy

October 31, 2020

Editor’s note: My dear friend and exemplar, Rich Clark, sent me this after reading last month’s blog about zero-sum people. On Generosity On our own, we conclude: there is not...
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November Laugh
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November Laugh

By Tim McCarthy

October 31, 2020

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Major Lazer
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Major Lazer

By Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford

October 31, 2020

Song of the month: “Lay your head on me”, by Major Lazer featuring Marcus Mumford   Editors note: M y daughter and I spent a Saturday evening recently by a...
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Kathleen Williams
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Kathleen Williams

September 29, 2020

Editors Note: Perhaps the only moderate ad we will see this season so it earned my monthly interest award. Note it is Montana so this is not a partisan statement.
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Best Laid Plans
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Best Laid Plans

By Tim McCarthy

September 29, 2020

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Future in the Distance
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Future in the Distance

By Carrie Chapman Catt

September 29, 2020

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. -- Carrie Chapman Catt
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Nothing but Deterioration
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Nothing but Deterioration

By JB Macaulay, written in 1830 as comment to widespread news that “America will never be the same”.  Thanks to Randy Martin

August 30, 2020

“We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point – that we have seen our best days.  But so said...
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Feeding My Head AND My Body

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Barbara Cartland said, “You become what you think. You are what you eat”. I heard a similar quote in the 1970s and it has come back to me many times...
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