Monthly Archives: May 2012

(Community Matters) In Marfa celebrating Ballroom Marfa, a super arts organization started by friends Fairfax Dorn & Virginia Lebermann. Good friends including Suzanne Deal Booth, Tobin Levy & John Wotowitcz are also on the board. We’re all here this weekend raising money for and celebrating their great work.

a rendering of their new Marfa drivein

Also a very productive Marfa Public Radio board meeting while here and back in time for tomorrow’s Laguna Gloria wedding of dear friends Jessika Mann & David Roth

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Photo: Garrick Stephens, Tobin Levy & moi

(Community Matters) two buses took employees to the new site last night at midnight. Board members had been sworn to secrecy. The new Wheatsville Co-Op in South Austin

(Community Matters) David Brooks (yes SM, I know you can’t stand him, but it’s a good column 🙂 )

When I read the Stanford discussion thread, I saw young people with deep moral yearnings. But they tended to convert moral questions into resource allocation questions; questions about how to be into questions about what to do.

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero. Understanding heroism and schmuckdom requires fewer Excel spreadsheets, more Dostoyevsky and the Book of Job.

(Community Matters)  Target has agreed to donate up to $120,000 in support of marriage equality by donating proceeds from sale of pride shirts to the Family Equality Council.

The Family Research Council is on it. They have started a massive calling and email campaign intended to dissuade Target for supporting equality in marriage.

Please email Target at press@target.com or call them at 612-304-6073, option 6 to express your support.   HuffPost story

I’m looking forward to once again shopping at Target. It’s been nearly 2 years.

(Community Matters) seriously? Planning Commission telling Austinites they have to get a health permit to rent a room to a friend or a weekender? And, they want homeowners to have to seek Planning Commission permission for any vacation rental? this is absurd. I get the nuisance thing but this is bureaucratic terrorism.  AAS story

we just had a city election where over zealous neighborhood activists campaigned against the incumbents. fortunately, citizens overwhelmingly overruled them

(Community Matters) I find the entire trial unseemly yet as compelled to read the new york times piece. As to violations of the law, I’m glad these will be sorted out. As to human flaws, why have Americans come to believe our leaders can have none. Great men have great flaws.

(Community Matters) Steven and I popped down to Sealy over night for birthday dinner with my dad, mom, sister (flew in from FL), brother (Eli), sister-in-law (Luci), nephew & niece (Eli & Paulina). Dad was 77yo yesterday – looking forward to many more.

At the restaurant, Paulina (9yo) surprised us by agreeing to play a short song on the piano for the entire restaurant. After a thunderous round of applause, she decided to play two

(Community Matters) Jack offers his Perspective on the European economic & political climate after a recent trip to the company’s UK headquarters – and he notes possible implications for our own

another important posting about Narrators – strategic communications and creative thinking (this would be my husband)

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(Community Matters) favorite tweet:

@nickducoff: How many retail investors will learn this weekend they can place a market order & buy $FB at IPO price Monday am? My guess: lots. Expect pop

(Community Matters) the Entrepreneurs Foundation is gathering 600 volunteers this morning to help the Sustainable Food Center build the first Austin teaching community gardens at the MLK Jr Park.

Thank you Convio and Blackbaud for sponsoring today and thank you Meredith Family & MFI Foundation for contributing the land and the park!

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(Community Matters) yum, another potential adventure