View From Here: Whence Goeth?

View From Here: Whence Goeth?: So, the title is old English. Sue me. I wanted to catch your eye and get you to read this piece. Hope I don’t disappoint. Where are w...

View From Here: Coming Together for Crisis

View From Here: Coming Together for Crisis: As our society roils with many issues, arguments, values and manners enter the spotlight. A lot of that attention displays an ugly side ...

View From Here: Nonprofit? What’s That?

View From Here: Nonprofit? What’s That?: I have pretty much worked my entire life in nonprofits. Oh, there have been a few times I worked for for-profit firms, but most likely n...

View From Here: Dreaming the Big

View From Here: Dreaming the Big: I’ve planned for my own organizations and for client organizations. I’ve done it for good sized fees and for free. The process is the sa...

View From Here: Sickness of a Society

View From Here: Sickness of a Society: I am shuddering. I have come to know my nation has an illness that is deep and pervasive. I have fought against the illness for decades; tho...

View From Here: Learning by Doing

View From Here: Learning by Doing: For at least a millennia, probably longer, people have taught one another how to do something by showing them how, coaching them, and pr...

View From Here: Hiring a Supreme Court Justice

View From Here: Hiring a Supreme Court Justice: Politics is an ugly business. It is compromise and trading of favors for other favors. The trouble this brings is twofold: first, the fa...

View From Here: On the Edge

View From Here: On the Edge: On the bubble. Finding the point of discovery. How does one find that? By doing it. By stretching one’s own abilities. And how do you...

View From Here: Anticipating Future

View From Here: Anticipating Future: Years back I would see a home I liked and think, ‘one day we could make that happen.’ Or, I’d see pictures of interesting places around ...

View From Here: Off-setting Trends

View From Here: Off-setting Trends: The yin and yang of daily life gives much to think about. If a trend rises in one place, is there an off-setting trend lowering somewher...

View From Here: Forcefields

View From Here: Forcefields: With hurricane Florence battling the eastern seaboard, forcefield is a term we readily understand. There are different kinds, and that’s...

View From Here: Taking the Pulse

View From Here: Taking the Pulse: Awoke this morning to rebooting the computer before doing anything else. Always a drag. The anxiety that something will be lost in the p...

View From Here: As Rome Burns

View From Here: As Rome Burns: Fiddling. Gaming. Gossiping. Fuming. Not governing. Anything but tending to the business at hand. It is not personal. It is serious b...

View From Here: A Gathering

View From Here: A Gathering: Last night 20 people gathered at a local restaurant. In West Chicago, local to some of us, not the rest! Some came from as far as Washington...

View From Here: Kneeling Kaep

View From Here: Kneeling Kaep: At the beginning of this controversy I was disappointed a person making $19 million annually couldn’t find a better way to publicize his...

View From Here: Missing Rahm Emanuel

View From Here: Missing Rahm Emanuel: He announced he will not run for re-election for Mayor of Chicago. He will complete his 8 th year in office in May 2019. I will miss hi...

View From Here: People in the Attic

View From Here: People in the Attic: Who are they? Are they one of us? Or different? Rumbles from above. Steps, thuds and other mystery sounds. No rhyme or reason, just n...

View From Here: Turning Tides

View From Here: Turning Tides: They come in and go out. Like clockwork. Following the moon and seasonal pulls of gravity. The Earth revolves around the sun. The tilt o...

View From Here: tRump’s Deals

View From Here: tRump’s Deals: They never were. Helsinki. North Korea. Words and stagecraft. And much of that poorly done. The master of the deal is found without c...

View From Here: Labor Day – Voter Focus

View From Here: Labor Day – Voter Focus: Yes, it is Labor Day, a national holiday intended to honor all of us working men and women and the labor movement that won bargaining ri...