It’s coming to America – poem by Leonard Cohen

It’s coming to America first, the cradle of the best and of the worst. It’s here they got the range and the machinery for change and it’s here they got the spiritual thirst. It’s here the family’s broken and it’s here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.                               –Leonard Cohen

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April 22, 2009 • Tags: , , • Posted in: democracy • No Comments

Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 2

Talkin’ ’bout the future

Talking about the future has two senses, the first is along the lines of “just talk” as opposed to action. The second sense has talking as a part of bringing the future into being.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. –Peter Drucker

The Monk

There is a story somewhere which [...]

Habitum Alteram Naturam – Part 1

Habit changes nature

Habit and Nature

Some might suggest we are human doing, rather than human being. I believe it was Aristotle who suggested it is what we do that makes us what we are. There is no essential being underneath our actions, per se, but the actions and the beings are concomitant. If so, then what [...]