August 20, 2004

• Sway balance and a waltz step.  I am not graceful.  It's a good thing I'm playing a Sakada, a Filipino plantation worker in Hawaii, although I bet they were graceful. 

  
  

  I remember writing about how negative of a person I am.  I was wrong.  There are plenty of negative people, who focus on all the bad things.  "One often finds exactly what they are looking for."  They are constantly looking for something to negatively criticize, to attack, or something that they must defend themselves against.  They look for how something is a personal attack, and they are looking to get angry.  I don't do any of that.  Occasionally, I do get angry, but then I turn that anger around and use it toward something productive. 

  
  

  When someone comes up with a plan, rather than embrace the plan and thank the person for giving them an option, they criticize that it is stifling their creativity to come up with their own ideas.  When someone tries to include the opinions of others and be open and honest, they criticize that it is airing all their dirty laundry.

  
  

  Am I wrong in thinking that community organizations, particularly non-profits that serve the community, have an obligation to let the community they serve know about the going ons of the organization?  Is this not a legal and moral obligation at that?  If a group wants to be secretive, then become a secret society, a Masonic organization, a private corporation, or something like that.  Don't become a non-profit.  Even then, there are laws and guidelines that curb the going ons of even a secret society.  For example, I don't believe that human sacrifice is protected under the freedom of religion statute, if you are murdering somebody.

  
  

  I'm still missing those Edmonton folks.  I've been thinking about a couple of them a lot.  I looked up some flights on Expedia and Priceline and found a round trip on Alaska Airlines for $332 for an October flight.  Anyone have any other leads?

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