Author Archives: ashley

i’m looking for suggestions of what to watch for in the olympics. i’m not a t.v. watcher so the thought to turn on the television requires a bit of planning for me. last night my brother was watching some of the olympics and i saw a clip about synchronized diving. i had no idea that […]

do you know how much i thrive off of feedback? i love it! i love giving it and i love receiving it. the images that come to my mind are the lakes and ponds that i enjoyed in new york last weekend. at the metropolitan museum, the reflection of the windows created these playfull squiggly […]

here’s a little story i use as a tool to help me remember to remember! I was hoola hooping with a 5-year-old one day. She picked up the hoola hoop and began playing with it, without asking me for assistance or guidance. We took turns watching one another and playing. She was catching on to […]

perfect presence. what is perfect presence? the dictionary guides a definition like this: presence is the state or fact of being present, being aware of what is existing or happening now. presence is also the area immediately surrounding someone… and the quality of self assurance and effectiveness. the word perfect used to be hard for […]

thank you, christy, for this beautiful post to the oslist. Butterflies and Open Space, Any Form our original thought wanders into chaos,and dissolvesinto a liquid body suspended weightlessat the wild and quivering edge,ripening with the passion fruit of silence: yes *and* no we re-mindwe re-memberthe pattern of Our Body re-forms, andthe radiant chrysalis Opensat justthe […]

Chris Corrigan presented an idea that simply has me humming! What is missing is companies (and their people) figuring out how to actually use the power of corporations to become givers. Corporate philanthropy is a step in this direction, but can it be taken down to the individual level? What if a corporation took a […]