I haven't been around Zaadz much, because my time is taken up with grading and such, at the end of the semester. I do hope to return, but in the meantime, if you want to stay in touch, please check out my blog at my home university.

Today at the UU service, the Rev. Teresa Kime invited us all to sing "Let it Be a Dance", and if we felt called to dance, invited us to do that as well. I heard that invitation deep in my soul, and sallied over during the second verse to a much older man whom I had met before and invited him to dance... only I did something that flustered him (I don't know these rules of dancing that well) and he was thoroughly uncomfortable. We sang together instead.

Hmmm, I wonder if that had anything to do with logos and eros?

My student sent me a link to this wonderful site: http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovement/   -- about a nonprofit trying to support peace and the education of children in Uganda.

I'm actually considering sleeping outside with my 5-year-old daughter on April 29. I hope it doesn't get too cold....

I have been putting off some writing and editing work, feeling that it may not be worth pursuing because my other efforts on this project do not seem to be appreciated by my colleagues. And yet, I know that this is worth doing, this work.

I found renewed inspiration in this quote:

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? "
-- Kahlil Gibran

Here's hoping that I will find some strong breaths blowing through me, and making beautiful music on the topic of the writing and editing -- transformative cooperation.

I have been searching, these past few years, for a community that I expected to find in my workplace, but have not. I have found part of what I was looking for in a community of friends on livejournal -- all mothers like me, most also employed, like me -- but it was unsatisfying to interact with them almost exclusively through the electrons of the internet. I have found part of what I was looking for in a Unitarian Universalist fellowship, although it discomfits me that my husband does not want to go along. Perhaps I will find part of the community I am looking for hear on Zaadz, too?

I'm looking for a space to honor and understand my life and the lives of those in my community.

I came across a mention of this new site via Dave Pollard's blog, How to Save the World, and it sounded intriguing, so I began to explore. I have been playing with 43 things for goalsetting, though I'm not enamored of their 43 people addition. I have also used LinkedIn and Ryze, but mostly for keeping track of people I have already met in real life.

I had never heard of the LOHAS market before reading Brian's blog entry on the Zaadz business model, and yet I have certainly read Richard Florida's work on Cultural Creatives, and I am steeped in writing on sustainability because of my work as a professor at a really cutting edge school of management.

I sometimes imagine a life as a free agent, earning my dough as an executive director of a nonprofit (like the one that I am helping to found, called NEOBEAN), or as a journalist with a newspaper  or magazine column or regular radio appearance, or as an independent consultant working on collaborative inquiry projects that unleash the full potential of worthwhile organizations. I can't really imagine leaving teaching behind... but I could imagine teaching a whole different set of students, who might be called clients instead, and who wouldn't want me to grade them and give them a diploma.

I currently blog at Management Professor Notes II, although I will probably experiment with occasional entries here that might not be tempered enough for my university blog.