Daily Archives: 03/03/2012

(Community Matters) my friend Ginger Reeder (who’s at TED this weekend) recommended this talk by Dr. Brene Brown

(shame & fear unravels connection. the only people who have no shame have no capacity for empathy or human connection. In order for connection, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen – vulnerability) Sense of worthiness, a strong sense of love & belonging. The people who have a strong sense of worthiness, believe they are worthy – wholehearted people) Traits shared by those who see selves as worthy: 1) Courage – the ability to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart (courage to be imperfect). 2) Compassion to be kind to self and others. 3) Connection – the result of authenticity, willing to let go of who think you should be, in order to be who you are. 4) Vulnerability – fully embrace; believe that what makes you vulnerable, makes you beautiful; it’s necessary. One of the ways too many deal with this world is by numbing vulnerability.

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(Community Matters) What an unexpected honor: the PeopleFund board of directors has named me Chairman of the Board Emeritus.

I served on this board approximately fifteen years before retiring last year. Margo Weisz and her staff built a successful and well-endowed organization. Gary Lindner and his staff are taking it to another level. Steven and I remain committed to their mission of economic opportunity through financial security and independence. And, this organization understands channeling intellectual capital to the small & local businesses is as important as the financial capital.

(Community Matters) Friday morning among a packed room of family, friends and colleagues, Jim was sworn-in as Associate Judge State District Court. Last night, we hosted his family and several close friends to celebrate.

in the pic, our dear friend Judge Lora Livingston in the background, presiding over the swearing in.

(Community Matters) I don’t know Chad but I like what I’m reading. Also, I do know one of the co-chairs of the search committee and have great confidence in their decision. San Francisco Chronicle

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REMEMBERING JAMES Q. WILSON, 1931-2012 – L.A. Times A1, “Pioneer in ‘broken windows’ approach to improve policing,” by Elaine Woo (NYT also fronts obit) : “James Q. Wilson, a social scientist who helped launch a revolution in law enforcement as the co-inventor of the ‘broken windows’ theory – the idea that eradicating graffiti, public drunkenness and other signposts of community decay was crucial to making neighborhoods safer – died Friday in Boston. He was 80 … complications of leukemia … Often called the ‘father of community policing,’ Wilson … was a widely admired public intellectual who wrote more than two dozen books on American government, criminal justice and moral issues. … Daniel Patrick Moynihan … once called him ‘the smartest man in the United States.’ In 2003, Wilson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Wilson changed the face of American policing in 1982 when he and colleague George L. Kelling wrote an article for the Atlantic titled ‘Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety.’ … [A]s Wilson and Kelling explained in deceptively simple terms: ‘One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.'” http://lat.ms/AvK6dF

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