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Defining Maleness2 comments

kmabarrett wrote 3 days ago: What Every Boy Should Know   I love reading great lessons that mothers should impart to their sons!  … more →

Tags: Quotes, Science and Learning, Other Blogs, knowledge, Learning, www.tropicalspiceliving.com, What Every Boy Should Know, Serendipity

Ripples From The Water's Edge

kmabarrett wrote 3 days ago: It is the polite outsider who attracts my attention. For me at least, possibly as part of my oddness … more →

Tags: Quotes, Faith, Family and Friends, Philosophy, writing, Other Blogs, on writing, On Faith, On Beauty, Serendipity

Embrace Serendipity

kmabarrett wrote 1 week ago: There is a theory about deliberate and emergent strategy.  The deliberate strategy allows you to cho … more →

Tags: Quotes, leadership, On leadership, Emergent Strategy, On Management, On Motivating People

Conversation

kmabarrett wrote 2 months ago: “You’re not like the rest of them,” she said.   “Yes, I know,” was his … more →

Tags: My Journal, The Great American Novel, Conversation

Lonely, Foolish, Love Songs1 comment

kmabarrett wrote 3 months ago:  Tonight I dropped on to YouTube to see where serendipity would take me.  She (“serendipity … more →

Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Lyrics, Poems, youtube .com, Song/ Lyrics, Marshall Tucker Band, The Main Ingredient, Heard it in a love song

Unfinished

kmabarrett wrote 3 months ago: A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.   –  Brooke McEldo … more →

Tags: Quotes, Philosophy, My Journal, Humor, Comics, Brooke McEldowney, Pibgorn, On Art, Dante

Chasing His Dragon

kmabarrett wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday I suffered another bad bout with my kidney stones.  I took advantage of the time off to fi … more →

Tags: Politics, Reading, Philosophy, Sports, Highly Recommended Reading, Martial Arts, Kung Fu, Matthew Polly, American Shaolin - book review

More Classics

kmabarrett wrote 7 months ago: A little while back I re-watched the original “Tron” movie (1982).  I picked it up with … more →

Tags: Movies, Music and Concerts, Highly Recommended Movie, tron movie review, Tron, Streets Of Fire - movie review, Michael Paré, Amy Madigan, I Can Dream About You

Life On The Range

kmabarrett wrote 7 months ago: Many years ago, I used to watch an interview show called: “The Dick Cavett Show“.  The h … more →

Tags: Poetry, Reading, Recommended Reading, John Lennon, Chris Ledoux, forrest gump, The Dick Cavett Show, Dick Cavett, Imagine

Strange To All The World

kmabarrett wrote 8 months ago: I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the worl … more →

Tags: Quotes, Music and Concerts, mathematics, Bunny Crumpacker, perfect figures, Music, Fred "Jelly Roll" Morton

Near Misses Aren't Successes

kmabarrett wrote 8 months ago: It is the paradox of the close call.  Probability wise, near misses aren’t successes.  They ar … more →

Tags: Quotes, Science and Learning, Wired Magazine, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ben Paynter, the fire next time, Probability, Systemic Learning

Warm Smiles

kmabarrett wrote 9 months ago: Last night, Hil, Sarah and I watched the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in London.  At the … more →

Tags: Poetry, Politics, Philosophy, Movies, Lyrics, John Lennon, Song/ Lyrics, Sir Paul McCartney, Imagine - song lyrics

High Anxiety1 comment

kmabarrett wrote 10 months ago: Somewhere between checked out and freaked out lies an anxiety sweet spot… in which a person is motiv … more →

Tags: Quotes, Lead.Learn.Live, david kanigan, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, wsj.com

The Gift

kmabarrett wrote 11 months ago: A couple of years ago, I got bit by the jogging bug to try to get back into a little shape.  I actua … more →

Tags: Quotes, Reading, Philosophy, Running, Sports, Recommended Reading, Steve Prefontaine, pre

Doggie Vision Networks2 comments

kmabarrett wrote 12 months ago: Here’s two more books which fall under the general category of “Serendipity and Chaos … more →

Tags: Reading, Science and Learning, Recommended Reading, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, the tipping point, Blink, Isaac Asimov, What The Dog Saw - book review

Comic Books

kmabarrett wrote 1 year ago: My son, James, collects comic books.  Not comic books like I used to collect – monthly issues … more →

Tags: Reading, Faith, Family and Friends, Book Review, Comic Books, Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, Hawkman - Omnibus Volume 1, Superboy

Edge, Class, Clash, And Flight

kmabarrett wrote 1 year ago: There is something about a web site which claims as its purpose: “To arrive at the edge of the … more →

Tags: Science and Learning, Movies, x-men first class movie review, Dennis Quaid, Clash of the Titans Movie Review, www.edge.org, Flight Of The Phoenix - movie review, Kevin Bacon, Sebastian Shaw

Spherical Knowledge Of Hamsters

kmabarrett wrote 1 year ago: Even though I’ve hunted animals for food as my family has for generations, and have seen more … more →

Tags: Quotes, Philosophy, KNOWTHESPHERE blog site, Wise Hamster - blog entry, aikido and the Dynamic Sphere, Osca Ratti, Adele Westbrook

It Couldn’t Be Done2 comments

kmabarrett wrote 1 year ago: Somebody said that it couldn’t be done       But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” … more →

Tags: Poetry, Quotes, Philosophy, Poems, It Couldn't Be Done, Lead.Learn.Live, david kanigan, www.poetryfoundation.org, Edgar Albert Guest


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