Ross James Swanston wrote:
>
> Sally,
>
> Congratulations on the 8th anniversary of the Futurework List. As it has
> grown and flourished over such an extended length of time certainly seems
> to prove that in todays troubled world there is no shortage of issues to be
> concerned about. The formula of Redesigning Work, Income Distribution and
> Education established at the outset must be the right one. We must be
> doing something right even if we're not always listened to.
[snip]
Did I miss it, or can we hear how many persons are on the
list (and, if the information is available, anything about
their/our "demographics")?
--
If I may quote once again Louis Kahn:
> The city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a
> small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will
> tell him what he wants to do his whole life.
>
> ...The city, from a simple settlement, became the place of
> assembled institutions. The measure of its greatness as a place
> to live must come from the character of its institutions,
> sanctioned by their sensitivity to desire for new agreement, not
> by need, because need comes from what already is. Desire is
> the thing not made, the roots of the will to live. (Louis Kahn, in
> Lobell, Between Silence and Light, 1979, pp. 44-5)
Or, as Sigmund Freud wrote: good love and good work are
the most important ingredients for a good life.
Happy anniversary/new year!
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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