Category: video links
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How One Business Trip Changed My Life, Or That Time I Went to New York and saw Kinky Boots
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In January, when I was still at my last job, my team was flying to New York for a bit meeting with out client. All of the agencies were gathering together for an annual meeting, and it was being held at BBDO New York. After what had been a very…
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Wednesday Wanderings: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (“Search”)
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Years ago, I used to love watching Ally McBeal. It was back when I was at Yale, and there was a certain intrigue about lawyers, about living in Boston. About the once-in-a-lifetime kind of friendships that the characters had found in their co-workers. Even back then, I recognized that their…
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Put Away the Spiritual Cosmetics: Every Life Has a Story
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This week I was in “New Employee Orientation,” and while I work as a project manager in a credit union, one of the videos we watched was a training video for Chick-Fil-A. I found it to be riveting: From an HR perspective, our trainer wanted us to think about how…
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Zoom Friday: Lots of Laughs
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This week, Zoom discovered a couple of important things. He learned to wave, and he learned to shake his head in the “no” direction. The waving thing happened last weekend, almost like something clicked for him and he realized what it meant when we were flopping our arms around and…
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Happy 40th Birthday to Sesame Street
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On the way home from work today, I was tuned in to Fresh Air and caught a GREAT story on fresh air about Sesame Street. You can listen it on the NPR website. It was so amazing reliving some of the happy memories, the great songs, and remembering the characters…
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More Inspiration: The Prayer of Saint Francis
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I find it funny how some thing I have seen or heard a million times can suddenly take on new meaning in my life. This often happens to me with music, or poetry. These moments of realization occur when I take the time to really listen to a prayer I’m…
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Friday Music: The Kennolyn Song
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After introducing you to my experience at summer camp, and my recent journey to the memorial for Aunt Marion of Kennolyn Camp, I thought I’d make my Friday Music this week one of a similarly sentimental nature. Kennolyn was the camp that I attended as a kid, and then later…
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A Father’s Love: Team Hoyt
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Over the New Years retreat, Father Rusty asked if we could play this video. We played it after a set of small group sessions, and since each team seemed to stagger in separately, I got to see it six times. Each time, full tears streamed down my face. Each time,…
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New Discovery in Golden Gate Park!
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This just in from the California Academy of Sciences:Unprecedented Footage of Rarest Mammal Ever from Science in Action on Vimeo. Happy April Fool’s Day. Hope everyone had a good one 🙂