Above is the word cloud that comes up when you Kennedy’s Day of Affirmation Speech into Wordle. This really highlights the essence of the speech and the power of language.
Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night. This is taken from the text of his speech, highlighting the 150 most common words (this was produced by Wordle)
Obama Nomination Acceptance Speech Word Cloud
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These have nothing to do with forwarding the conversation. These are for fun!
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Here is an excerpt from a townhall meeting that Senator McCain attended recently. He appears to be insinuating that he would not be opposed to reinstituting the draft. The idea is a little bit scary for someone who is under the age of 26. What do you think, are there circumstances where we reinstitute the draft?
The purpose of this site is to create a place for people to discuss joining purposes and joint-action. This is a safe space for people to be in inquiry about what it means to them to connect with others in a way that fosters deep, purposeful, and powerful action. I will share my own thoughts where appropriate and mostly I will seek out what others are saying using their thoughts as a point of reference to forward the larger narrative.
Just in case you are wondering, the quote under the banner is from an Ancient Mayan Text called the Popol Vuh . I first heard about it from a friend of mine named Nick and then read it in a book entitled Presence written by Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers.
Here is a website I’ve been looking at a lot recently that is really onto something…
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