Editor’s note: The Southern Cross is a constellation long loved by sailors. The song is one of the early, more obscure Crosby Stills and Nash songs but is one of my favorite for its harmonies, its melody and its meaning. The song is about failed love but as the excerpt below suggests, has a far broader meaning to me. Peace.
Editor’s Note: This irreverent “journey through the new Third World” by Lewis is at once vastly entertaining and concerning. Within the past year or so, he visits Iceland, Ireland, Greece, Germany and California to measure the fallout of the financial crisis. Interviews with many key players in these focal point geographies suggest to the reader that the crisis a. looks obvious in retrospect and b. is not nearly over yet. And while I’d already had this fact drilled into my head in MBA school in 2005-2007, he reminds me that the clearest sign of trouble ahead is our government (all levels) un-fundable benefit commitments to public workers and pensioners.
Editor’s note: This is perhaps my favorite quote ever, a sign posted behind the desk of my friend, placed so no one can see it but him.
Editor’s note: This is just a great throw-back song for me. A lot of memories come to me from this hitchhiker’s ballad of missing their mate, some of the best from singing it with my family. But there is also a point in the refrain, noted below in my favorite lyric.
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication…nature loves simplicity and unity.” Steve Jobs
Editor’s note: This song was written by Harrison after having gone through a lot of difficulties in 1969. I’ve often found myself in the position during dark times to remind myself the sun will rise again. My favorite version, shown here, is Richie Havens recorded in 1974.
Favorite lyric: “And I say it’s all right”
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Editor's Note: Seems like a good month for a love song. My son and his wife played this at their wedding and I liked it but for reasons that are even a bit deeper. To me, the greatest service to others is without words and the most effective evangelism is non-verbal. How nice that Krauss finds a way to say the same thing about love.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin
Editor's Note: A special highlight of "Encore" is the author's inclusion of stories of people who have chosen not to retire from working itself, but to change careers for work that is personally meaningful and self-satisfying. Certainly this has been my own experience and readers will find practical hints and tips for the transformation that millions of our baby boomers may want to make.
