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November 2006

How to ask for help

Submitted by Carmen on Fri, 11/24/2006 - 01:00
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My working passion is big “free” public projects – like The Commercial Drive Festival, and Momentum Magazine. People sometimes say things to me like, “you get so much done,” and this makes me laugh, because I’m really a lazy hedonist. The fact is that in order to accomplish what I want to do, I have had to learn how to ask for help...lots of it, and for "free." And I have noticed that the more help I get, the more “I” accomplish – and the more time I get to spend lying on the beach.

Snow in Interdependence Park

Submitted by Carmen on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 01:00
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THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;