…while Great Works
of the traditional sort
are marvels of time and space,
life offers
far more opportunities
for the sharing of peanuts.

-excerpted from Colleen Wainwright’s poem “Dying to be born,” published in What is Dying to be Born?, Lianne Raymond 

  

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“Look at the projections of fiscal doom emanating from the federal government, and consider the possibility that things could prove both worse and better. Worse because the jobless recovery we all expect could be severe enough to starve the New Deal social programs on which we base our life plans. Better because the millennial generation could prove to be more resilient and creative than its predecessors, abandoning old, familiar and broken institutions in favor of new, strange and flourishing ones.”

 - excerpted from The Dropout Economy by Reihan Salamfrom
in Time Magazine’s Ten Ideas for the Next Ten Years

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“Now we can interpret work as it really is — the best personal development tool on the planet. And our greatest chance at solving the world’s problems. 

When each of us takes personal responsibility to do work that is deeply meaningful and creative, we birth new markets. We  cross social, racial and economic boundaries. We question established practices like sweatshops and predatory lending. We simplify and streamline. We look for lessons from all corners of the world, not the one being sold from the corner office of a shiny building on Madison Avenue.

As we look back on the history of our planet, we see examples of work as love, work as art, work as harmony with the pulse of the earth. We get to decide how work will look in this century.”

- excerpted from Pam Slim’s untitled essay
published in What is Dying to be Born?, ed. Lianne Raymond 

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