Gave my standard talk on Engaging High Capacity Donors for Inspired Legacies today in Scottsdale to 100 or so reps of a financial organization. Tonight at the cocktail hour two women came up to say how connected they felt throughout the talk.I asked one why, she said, “I don’t know you seem to understand. With men it is usually all about performance.” The women laughed, including me in the ages old insight. To clarify, metrics say how much bigger or smaller it gets over time. Bars on the bar charts keep getting bigger. That means we are doing well. When Jesus said, "Bring me the stone the builders rejected, that is the cornerstone," or "the last shall be first," or "the meek shall inherit," or, "love others as God loves you," or "from the smallest seed, the mustard seed, grows the tree," or, "suffer the children to come to me," he was not talking about women, he was talking about those on the margins who without glory or expectation of results do what love requires. "Performance," right, exactly that. So in the name of performance let us mutiliate our humanity. Then, may we be so lucky to find a person, more than likely a woman, to bind those self-inflicted wounds.
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Beautifully said, Phil.
Posted by: Jon Husband | December 06, 2012 at 12:37 AM
Are you becoming what you turned away from?
Happy St Nicholas Day, Phil!
Posted by: AKMA | December 06, 2012 at 02:32 AM
The meter in music allows us to measure:
gifts may be metered but not merely treasure.
The bars on the bar chart approximate vamps
we read and dance literal or loveable tramps.
Posted by: Krass | December 06, 2012 at 09:04 PM
God is really good. People just need to feel that He is always there.
Posted by: Louise | December 07, 2012 at 12:45 AM
"Home is where when you go there they have to take you in." Frost, in Death of the Hired Man.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | December 07, 2012 at 12:48 PM
He .. ? Have you ever met "him" ?
Posted by: Jon Husband | December 07, 2012 at 04:59 PM
Once we had many gods, then one Pantheon, then the God Most High. Today we have many brands, as diverse as human desires, and One Market. Wealth Bondage is the Most High, as Brand of all Brands. That is not an expression of Faith, it is our Mission Statement. Wealth Bondage is Good. Wealth Bondage is Evil. Wealth Bondage, unlike the old style God, encompasses all without contradiction or paradox. All can and is sold.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | December 12, 2012 at 04:07 PM
Metrics? Wealth Bondage is the measure of all things. If it cannot be measured, managed, and sold, it does not exist.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | December 12, 2012 at 04:08 PM