Eight year old Sandra Cantu has been missing for days. Her search committee has opened up a twitter account, @searchforsandra, to share updates and spread the word about their emergency. The twittersphere has retweeted this many times-and if you have a moment, visit their website to see what you can do to help.  While not making light of this emergency, I am interested that the search committee is using twitter in this way.

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I blog both to explore what interests me and to share it with people who interest me. Sometimes, that interest is in business insights, leaders and thinkers and other times it’s culture, humor and inspiration. Re-reading a few things I wrote last year made me realize my writing was a lil too stuffy. I’d like to have a bit more fun here. Maybe a few more typos and tangents? I need to unbutton my top button so to speak.

And I’d also like to hear from you, too. Either in the comments or email. Lets turn this into a dialogue. Sound good?

I read a passage last night that that had a wow factor. It’s from “Good Poems for Hard Times” by Garrison Kellor.

“The common life is precarious. I fear a future in which America becomes a loose aggregate of marauding tribes—no binding traditions, no songs that we all know, not even the “Star-Spangled Banner,” or “Silent Night,” no common heroes, no American literature—only the promotional lit of race and ethnicity, our people unable to name their senators, their only political experience via television, their only public life at Wal-Mart.”

Do you fear this future? I am more concerned with a future in which we are all chanting the same songs, in which our eagerness to create and defend a unified national culture creates a community of zealots. It’s not that I like individual tribes, rather It’s I like what happens when the cultures from all those tribes interact to create something larger and more meaningful. That’s the type of national experience I am interested in having & sharing.

How about you?