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Said somewhat tongue in cheek, I sometimes worry that I am 'addicted to learning' - that I can't turn it off and I do get 'high' from new concepts and ideas.

I do admit it .. I am a learner - an avid learner and reader.  Not the formal kind of learner who does well in school - my learning happens at different times and in different places.

Guy Kawasaki, one of the most brilliant (and decent) people


Trading spaces

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Sometimes a change of scenery does a person good - getting out of one's routine and space.

The last two days, I was in Indiana - surprisingly not there to canvas for my Presidential candidiate of choice for the primary in that state today, 6 May. Spending my early life in southwest Ohio, we went to southern Indiana to see family and friends. It had been years since I'd been back. How beautiful the ride from Indianapolis to French Lick, Indiana - the farm land, the small towns, the beauty of open space.

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with a mission of social responsibility, remarkable things happen.

Day 2 of the ASAE/Center Global Summit on Social Responsibility is done.  We did so much good work today to move us to our conclusion on Friday.  We took the work of Wednesday,  using our dreams and our thoughts about SR in the association community for 2020 and got into how we'd do it.

My random thoughts are below, somewhat edited


It's the night after the first full day of the ASAE & The Center's Global Summit on Social Responsibility.  I am exhausted - my head is filled with information from Jeffrey  Sachs, the economist and professor, and from those w/ whom I interacted at the f2f gathering at the new Gaylord National outside Washington, DC.

Where were you?  There were opportunities to participate virtually - and I bet