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		<title>Can you hear me? Can you see me?</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/can-you-hear-me-can-you-see-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essence of humanity is human connection:

Clearing the clutter to SEE the invisible in a world of neon lights, glitz, and bling.

Silencing the clamor to HEAR the quiet voices in a world so full of noise.

Halting the frenzy to SEE, and HEAR . . . myself.

This is the essence of being human: Ubuntu<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=771&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>permanency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We build our lives around permanency. Retirement savings is assumed to be permanent security. Homes and families are built on the human construct of permanency. Careers, income, and possessions . . . all create a sense of permanency.

I wonder why that is? We know that nothing is permanent. We trick ourselves into believing that stuff is permanent. But down deep we know it is not. We’ve seen it.
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		<title>Leadership Development: the roots of change</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/756/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step in change, for an individual, an organization, or a community is changing deeply held beliefs about change.
Is it possible to change?
Do I have the ability to change?
Do I have the will to change?
The questions about change have to change;
From “When is change coming?” or “Where can I look to find change?”
To “Change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=756&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer or Contributor: leadership in an age of consumption</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all find meaning in life in the same way: finding something we have to offer and giving it to others; finding something we are good at and doing it. When we see that we have made a difference by what we do, then, and only then, do we find meaning in life.
In the industrial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=745&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>gentleness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“‘Love doesn&#8217;t mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.’ Tenderness and gentleness characterize the life and work of Jean Vanier as well as L&#8217;Arche movement. Vanier observes that ‘community is made of the gentle concern that people show each other every day. It is made up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=741&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a true friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Tribute to Buddy)

Last night my dog Buddy passed away after become tremendously ill over the weekend. He was only 5 years old and had been very healthy so it was very unexpected. And it is not until after he is gone that I’ve realized how perfect the name my daughter Myka gave him truly was.
I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=729&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>no longer immune</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/no-longer-immune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No longer immune
What has happened to the barrier?
What has happened to the cushion?
What has happened to the front, the façade, the mask I used to don so quickly, so conveniently, so comfortably?
I used to answer the question, “how are you?” with “fine” . . . and really mean it.
But now I’m . . .
No longer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=692&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>community: a matter of life and death?</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/community-a-matter-of-life-and-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There was no suicide, no alcoholism, no drug addiction, and very little crime. They didn’t have anyone on welfare. Then we looked at peptic ulcers. They didn’t have any of those either. These people were dying of old age. That’s it.” (Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, p. 7)
“Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=536&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>presence: living from the source</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/presence-living-from-the-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 02:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living from one’s Source is an experience that is described across all cultures and religions in very different terms but at the heart of its description, the experience sounds very similar. It is a spiritual human experience that is life changing.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience,
We are spiritual beings having a human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=269&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what i believe . . .</title>
		<link>http://ronirvine.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/what-i-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Irvine</dc:creator>
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People are the solution to the problems that confront us.Technology is not the solution, although it can help. We are the solution &#8212; we as generous, open-hearted people who want to use our creativity and caring on behalf of other human beings and all life.
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ronirvine.wordpress.com&blog=5568650&post=262&subd=ronirvine&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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