Positively Prepared for Down Days
Because the best you can you can do for you is leave bread crumbs to lead you back home to those who love you
The greatest decision I ever made has been to change my perspective on relationships. I used to want to be married as if it somehow defined me and proved to the world I was responsible enough to be considered stable and able to be recognized in life as who I am. I thought my value…
Shoving people in front of the Appreciation Bus Why, because I can and they deserve the recognition!
BY ANDY BURNSIDE (he/they) CO-LEAD CISCO SECURE PRIDE 01/12/2023 20:09 PM ET (shared with authors permission) I recently ran across a blog that highlighted several tips the CIA provided in a field manual written in 1944 to would-be saboteurs in occupied Europe on how to disrupt workplace productivity. Almost 80 years later, there are still valuable lessons, particularly for diversity and inclusion and workplace…
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Young DFW woman posted about wanting to make sure the guy she was interested in wasn’t a cheater. So she shared his photo with a group of 42k women. What she got, from many members, was pointing out he was wearing a confederate flag with the words “rebel” on it which has become synonymous with…
Every day of our lives we have an opportunity to either improve or devolve as a person. Those who we surround ourselves with, devote our energy towards. In doing so, we create opportunities for us to help others, and for others to help us. Those opportunities we create, define not only who we are supporting…
Sometimes you have to BE the catalyst for change….
I used to feel relationships should not have a cost, that you should be there if someone needs you unconditionally. That is until I realized I kept giving good advice and those same people repetitively asked the same questions hoping for different answers because they changed one small non-impactful thing rather than hearing what I…
Written by cuddle_muffinFriday, 05 July 2013 03:21trigger warning – no graphic depictions, but it is all about rape and rape culture and how many of us end up contributing to it and why. when i think about the statistics we have for rape, especially considering that it’s under-reported, the uncomfortable thought that inevitably comes to…
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And the ultimate famous last word:
Now I know Simone said that she was a student of Sartre’s philosophy, but I think she was in fact his mentor, and he was the student who only half listened to the teachings. Simone not only produced the initial work that Sartre then expanded on for his Being and Nothingness, but also he used…
