Note from Gillian: Why Community

Every life form has a community whether it’s the beehive, the rain forest or the bowling league. We see community in sports, schools, and religions. We see community in business, politics and lifestyles. There are communities that are exclusive. There are communities that are inclusive.[…]
Note from Gillian: Great Expectations

For those of us who had the honor, or in some cases the endurance, to read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, there was much in this novel that is relevant today. The story of the orphan boy, Pip,
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Read MoreNote from Gillian: Changing the Conversation

In 1839 an often-overlooked novelist and playwright, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, once wrote, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Mind you, he was also credited with creating the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night…” which has lived on in its own infamy.
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Read MoreNote from Gillian: Grow Like a Tree

For my birthday recently, Alissa gave me an amazing first publication of Henry David Thoreau’s last manuscript, Faith in a Seed, with insightful wisdom and observations clarifying the mystery of the origin of trees. Mother Nature plants a minuscule seed that from its inception contains all its goals,
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Read MoreIn Search of Enthusiasm

Today, thanks to questionable algorithms, spit-sourced DNA testing, dating surveys, smart homes, smart phones, smart devices, we are told how we think, how we feel, how to choose a new car, a date, our career, our music choices,
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Read MoreEntrepreneur Profile: Will Anderson of Açaí of America

Will Anderson loves business. When he speaks about valuations, mergers and acquisitions and barriers to entry, he lights up. Will doesn’t have your average health food entrepreneur story, but it’s a good one. After earning his MBA From Fordham GSB,
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Read MoreThe Power of the [Right] Word

Billions of dollars are spent annually to introduce products, ideas or services to change minds, to motivate, to activate and inspire. Every walk of life uses words to be heard, understood and wanted, from manufacturers to education,
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Read MoreBumbleberry Farms–Spread a Little Sweetness

Beekeeper, Karen Mosholder and grandson, Henry, tending the hives
Thirteen years ago Karen Sandusky Mosholder awoke from a dream with the words BumbleBerry Apiary Heritage Select Honey running through her brain. Like some of her other dreamy ideas,
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Read MoreValue What is Real and True

I was not your normal child, then again, who is? Growing up back East, I was surrounded by books, innovative thinkers, out of the box architects and engineers (in fact they designed and built new sustainable boxes),
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Read MoreA Thousand Thankful Moments

As the family, friends and feasting pause for a breather, a bit of digestion and contemplation of the next upcoming festivities, I thought it was a good time to take a few moments to reflect on all there is for which we can be thankful and recognize that so much good that surrounds us.
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