The original idea of Messages of Hope was inspired by an article by Michael Lerner in Tikkun Magazine in which he described two opposing paradigms of fear and hope, along which we moved towards fear or towards hope day to day. James Baxter McFarlin and Keith Ray brainstormed up some very cool messages, kept at a pbwiki under Messages of James and Messages of Keith. We were originally planning to come up with some cool graphics and printed product lines that displayed these messages.
Along with that, I compiled an exhausting list of the fears we all live with to use as a counter to force us to think of the messages of hope we might compose to counter those fears. Read that only if you are feeling strong!
At the Messages of Hope pbwiki, I wrote many articles on management and brainstorming and such that will eventually be transfered here. In the process of trying to set up a company, I came to the hard-realized conclusion that I definitely am no manager and not the kind of person who makes a good entrepreneur (at least not without business-savvay partners handling that sort of thing!), and the idea was never brought into fruition. Obviously, a lot of energy was expended towards this business taking root by myself, James and Keith, and a number of my former FTCC students and friend Delaine Weddle. It is a shame it never went anywhere, but at least we did give it a go!
Posted by Terry on 11/25 at 02:46 AM
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