Iced Coffee and Cool Conversation – Keep Looking Out

We’re taking time off from weekly Coffee and Conversation sessions – it’s summer.

We had great discussions this year – our conversations straddled race, politics, fashion, and art.  We talked about threats to the environment and perceived inequities in the way people obtain wealth. We argued about the country’s lack of policies regarding energy use, housing, and health care.  We’re concerned about how the country’s wealth was tossed.  We were both hopeful and dismayed about America’s political life – the role of young people in the election; proper separation of powers; prisons; torture; abuses of civil liberties; a country’s loss of it’s soul; and, corrupting influences in government.   We struggled to create rules for when a country should use force to solve problems but remained concern that we had no idea how to stop violence and killings in America, Rwanda, Darfur, and Burma.  And, we got jazzed about love, happiness, and beautiful things.

This summer, stay up on it – let us know when you see something of interest: a new trend; new business ideas; new insights; send me clips and other newsy, thought-provoking, pretty things.  We need discussion suggestions for the fall – send your ideas now.

Keep in touch.  Check out the blog posts from the students working in my office; my periodic attempts at musing; and our frequent clippings on the Daily B.U.zz.  And, of course, with enthusiasm, I look forward to strengthen my voice via lots of summer tweeting.

I’ll see you soon – the first gathering around good coffee and conversation is on Friday, September 4.  Have a productive, restful, and joyous summer.  Stay well.