Editor’s note: A beautiful prayer by Leonard Cohen. Enough said. The words below are part of his introduction to the song at his 1985 Warsaw concert. 

Editor’s Note: I’m a slave to impulse though thankfully less so as I age and mellow. But it still takes a huge effort for me (Alice says I’m not “type A”, I’m “type AAA”) to notice my emotions before I act upon them. I love this website in general but ever more when thoughts such as these are shared. Thanks, as always to www.dailygood.org, knowledge@wharton and Susan David, whose book I am downloading this morning.

All business is social.

Editor’s note: Tell me if you’ve heard this before: “the financial system is ruining our democracy”. Right, me too. But Foroohar is not the Thomas Picketty or Tragic Idealist take, whose solutions are neo-socialistic such as redistribution of income. Foroohar offers five solutions in the last chapter and while they’re a bit idealisitic, they are fairly precise such as #1: Reduce complexity and leverage. I believe we will wake up one day, whether thoughtfully or rudely and return to a more traditional capitalism, using banks to finance investment, debt and long term growth. Financial firms will return to products that aid the creation of goods, services, innovation, research and advancements rather than engineered financial products that simply move debt around. In the meantime, I’ll continue to worry.

“You gotta get the hay out of the loft, down to where the horses can eat it”.

Editor’s note:  I read Father Rohr’s daily reflections most mornings.  As with any reader, some days he resonates, some not so much.  On this day, I loved his reflection of my favorite Thomas Merton quote urging us to “cast our solemnity to the wind and join the dance”.  As Merton says, the dance is already happening…we need simply to join in.

Editor’s note: Lee has been cited on the website before since for my money, he’s as good a poet songwriter as there is on the current music scene. I enjoy his voice, pacing, instrumentation and production values as well.

I’ve never knowingly had my IQ tested but I’m pretty sure they did it in grade school because my teachers constantly told me that my grades were far below what my intelligence tests predicted. I was apparently a slacker before the word was coined.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Joe Hartman, my pal and co-worker at WorkPlace, for bringing this and a few other songs to my attention from the era of last month’s song. It’s a toe-tapper with a lot of meaning since she (Gladys Knight) is trying to figure out how to use her imagination to “keep on keeping on”. Oh, man, I love this.