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It's about community, entrepreneurs, politics, art . . and sometimes just silly fun . . . a slightly gay blog.Eugene Sepulveda
Love big West Texas skies, Austin and my husband, Dr. Steven Robert Tomlinson, with whom I’ve spent the last 18 years – thirteen years since we were married on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. Then, married again at St. James Episcopal Church in Austin, TX on June 27, 2015.
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Steven’s recent tweets
- Mentor: You make people smart by how you listen to them. You make them beautiful by how you are willing to see them. 1 week ago
- Leaders can give their people permission to be uncomfortable in tough conversations about difference. #culturati18 2 months ago
- Our goal with diversity is that everyone is seen as someone you might identify with. #culturati18 2 months ago
- “As we seek to make progress towards inclusion, it helps to remember: we learn by saying the wrong thing, even by o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… 2 months ago
- Whatever your position, you succeed best at the job you give yourself. #culturati18 2 months ago
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- Mentor: You make people smart by how you listen to them. You make them beautiful by how you are willing to see them. 1 week ago
- Leaders can give their people permission to be uncomfortable in tough conversations about difference. #culturati18 2 months ago
- Our goal with diversity is that everyone is seen as someone you might identify with. #culturati18 2 months ago
- “As we seek to make progress towards inclusion, it helps to remember: we learn by saying the wrong thing, even by o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… 2 months ago
- Whatever your position, you succeed best at the job you give yourself. #culturati18 2 months ago
- A Philosophy of Stage Fright ssw.edu/blog/philosoph… 6 months ago
- RT @EugeneAustin: The willingness to help ... crowds out the drive to impress ... generosity is the opposite of anxiety. https://t.co/aRf0b… 6 months ago
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- Procrastination gets the dishes done. 8 months ago
- @British_Airways Thanks for saving our bacon when UA couldn't get us to London. Agent Jose Garcia in Austin makes BA look great! 10 months ago
- Want depth? Practice boredom. ssw.edu/blog/cultivati… 11 months ago
- A good speaker connects with the audience. A great speaker connects the audience with each other. 11 months ago
- Give a man a compliment, and you make his day. Teach a man to fish for compliments, and he'll have a lifetime of narcissistic insecurity. 1 year ago
- @evernotehelps Thanks, Aaron. That did it! 1 year ago
- @evernotehelps How do I put a space between items in a numbered list without starting over with "1"? I'm using Evernote app for Mac v 6.10. 1 year ago
- @DaveWilliamsATX thanks for RT Dave. Peace. 1 year ago
- @kentfuka @statesman thanks! 1 year ago
- RT @mySSW: Enemies and Inspiration ssw.edu/blog/enemies-a… #Episcopal #HolyQuestions 1 year ago
- @stephenblong Thanks for asking us, Stephen. I hope you'll write about any powerful and promising conversations with political opponents. 1 year ago
- “As often as we build a wall, we can be sure that Jesus is on the other side of it.” @TheZacKoons 1 year ago
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Thank you for posting this Eugene. 2009 started full of promise and optimism, but then, through no fault of our own, my husband and I got caught up in the fight of our lives with our new mortgage servicer. As just an ordinary schmuck who got kicked to her knees during the President’s battle against the banks, I can say with some authority – I can see the light!
A few months ago I had a great conversation with an economist with the Dallas Federal Reserve during their visit to Alpine. He pointed at me and said, “It’s now up to you and the other entrepreneurs to pull us out of this.”
Now that the banks are being thumped off our backs, it’s so much easier to get back to concentrating on creating more business(es). And there’s a treasure of new technology just waiting to be put to use. It’s about to get fun again.