Dearest family, friends, colleagues, and strangers who read my blog,
As those who know me are aware, by religion, I am an omnivore. In our house, we observe as many holidays as we can bring in the door. Thus, we're deep into our Christmas celebration -- and before we move to our next course (we've already enjoyed Monkey Bread, thanks to our resident chef; next up Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine in honor of our vegetarian), I am sending holiday greetings to all of you.
Family, you know how happy I am when we are all together. Friends of old, you bring the weepies; friends new, I am astonished that we've met and am eager to get beyond the superficialities and into the depths. Colleagues old and new, we have discovered so much together and are launched on paths that will take us who-knows-where. Strangers, thank you for reading.
I woke this morning remembering a few paragraphs from Networking, Jeff's and my first book - written so long ago, a quarter century, that Amazon sells it for a penny - that seem relevant to the challenges of our time -- and to this particular holiday:
We are beginning to accept the idea that "the future" is not something that will "happen" to us. We make the future every moment we live, an ancient idea that is the very essence of "karma" and most readily understood in the West through the biblical passage "As you sow, so shall you reap."
Our future is born out of our transforming ideas, out of our original and most basic human attribute, which is the ability to create images of a world that has not yet existed, but may.
May there be peace on earth--all else follows.
With abiding love from the many me's,
