Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:28:07 -0300 http://www.bligoo.com/ es Thought for 2008 http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/112226/Thought_for_2008.html Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:25:18 -0300 http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/112226/Thought_for_2008.html Mary As we look forward to our new year, it's also a good time to look back, to remember how far we've come and how quickly we are moving into the future. That's why I chose this week's quote from What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe.

We are in the midst of another transformation, not national but global, where information moves around the world at the speed of light. Yet, as Howe mentions in the beginning of his book, "Neither Alexander the Great nor Benjamin Franklin ... two thousand years later knew anything

(Read more)]]> Quote of the Week: Whose handcuffs do you wear? http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/98000/Quote_of_the_Week_Whose_handcuffs_do_you_wear.html Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:58:12 -0300 http://www.zapboom.com/content/view/98000/Quote_of_the_Week_Whose_handcuffs_do_you_wear.html Mary I found this week's quote while going through materials I collected while living in Ghana in 2002. It's very evocative, I think: "You are the slave of he whose handcuffs you wear."

This seemed particularly appropriate in light of Black Friday and the handcuffs we place on ourselves as consumers. Whose handcuffs do you wear?

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