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There are many things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat paddling from its den, will you count that sight a chip of copper only, and go on your rueful way? It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get.

Annie Dillard
from "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."

The Rhizome


Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

-Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

I just saw very sad news today: Tim Field has passed away. Tim was very supportive of all workplace bullying targets; he worked hard for this cause.
I wish his family well. I pray that they know he helped many people survive workplace trauma.

http:/​/​www.guardian.co.uk/​obituaries/​story/​0,,1691574,00.html

Columns from DAWN newsletter (Dignity at Work Now) and The International Center for Dispute Resolution at Sullivan University will soon be posted here.

About the American Party System.....

George Washington had this to say about the party system:
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
http:/​/​www.yale.edu/​lawweb/​avalon/​washing.htm

Status blind hostile work environment legislation updates to come soon.