Confess and Resolve, 2013

No. 1:  Less e-clutter

Confession:  I've inadvertently subscribed myself to so many listservs,  e-subscriptions and message board notifications that, despite the use of filters and other labs, I've had thousands of unread emails for most of 2012.

Remedy:  I've unsubscribed myself and used Facebook and Twitter to connect with these organizations instead.  In just a few minutes I'm already down to 8,000 or so.

2013 Resolution:  Emails from real people only.

No. 2:  Finish Everything I Start

Confession:  I am a serial starter.  I love to start new projects and pride myself in being "a planner".  Unfortunately I only finished a fraction of what I started in 2012.
 
Remedy & Resolution forthcoming.  [ i <3 br="br" irony="irony">

Soundtrack 2012

Daily  | Bob Marley Natural Mystic
Weekly  |  The Submarines 1940 Remix
Monthly | Aloe Blacc I need a dollar


Work  | Pink Martini  Sympathique 
Love  | Louis Armstrong  La Vie En Rose 
Life | Balkan Beat Box Part of the Glory

Feel Good  |  Nina Simone  Ain’t got no...
Look Good |  Trey Songs No Clothes On
Do Good | John Butler  Ocean

Soundtrack Retrospect

Everyone is perfectly adjusted to the environment they come from.  Understanding that is culturally essential to the future and global civics. Check it out.   Something better - more inclusive, more transparent, more representative  - awaits us but we have to work together to get to it.

Reclaiming jihad.

"Jihad...to the vast majority of practicing muslims, jihad is an internal struggle..it is a struggle within, a struggle against vice and sin, temptation, lust, greed... it is a struggle to try to live a life."

"He took this word, this beautiful idea...kidnapped it and debated it and currupted it and turned it into something that it was never supposed to be."

Bobby Ghosh at TEDx Georgetown on Why global jihad is losing
http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_ghosh_why_global_jihad_is_losing.html