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I’m off to Michigan…. East Lansing where I grew up! MSU where I went to school. My partner, Tom Ahern joins me.
Thursday, March 12, 2020. Kellogg Center, MSU. AFP Chapter. Register here.
I hope you’ll join us!!
Filed under: Nonprofit Fundraising-Fund Development
Listening to music. Picking and choosing. Scrolling and re-discovering…
How I loved Newsroom with Jeff Daniels. Check out this youtube video – getting to Memphis.
Do you know this beautiful song? Same Love, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
The Weary Kind . Sung by Ryan Bingham. From that wonderful movie with Jeff Bridges.
If only we would choose to rise up… Through troubles and pain. When I first heard it…this was for justice… hope for justice…all the fights…
This Time… Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Surely pretty much “everyone” knows American Pie. But have you seen the marvelous lipdub from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ah Michigan…where I grew up.
And of course, Leonard and everyone’s versions of Hallelujah. And k.d. Lang’s version at the Olympics.
Sometimes just listening to music helps…right?
Filed under: Just for fun
Really great Wall Street Journal article … October 26-27, 2019 … “Notes of the Notables,” by Erika Berlin and Matthew Kitchen.
So who are the notables? Johnny Cash. Thelonious Monk. Nora Ephron. Charles Dickens. Grace Jones. Charles Darwin. Marilyn Monroe. James Naismith. Benjamin Branklin. George Lucas.
Nora Ephron wrote a list about what she’d miss after she died. That’s pretty damn cool, I think. Check the article to find out what she’d miss the most.
What was George Lucas’ list about? Alternative titles for his film “American Graffiti.” Wow are some of them ever really weird!!!!
Thelonious Monk wrote 25 handwritten tips for his bandmates. “You’ve got to dig it to dig it, you dig?”
ENJOY!!
Filed under: Just for fun
Memories from vacation…
Well, actually, written while on vacation…to then become a memory.
Watching The West Wing. 7 seasons. Not sure that I’ll finish all 7 this vacation.
The most wonderful show. Enviable governing… Good politics…
A trip down memory lane…Loving the show. Wishing this was real. I remember talking with colleagues about what happened in an episode…only we were talking like it was real. We recognized that and then we started chuckling.
Shit…This wasn’t real!!!
Filed under: Just for fun
Hello, Everyone….
Anticipate…pre-empt
I’ve been thinking about this lots. And I realize I’ve been thinking and operating this way forever.
But it’s only now that I’ve articulated the phrase.
And I need to explain it to you all … one of these days.
Simone
Filed under: Leadership
Movies or books or music and…
Billy Elliott (the movie) and Billy Elliott (the musical)
Strictly Ballroom (So much fun…Culture clash…Ballroom dancing…Some comic comedy…)
American President … Always one of my favorites
Silverado…The Big Chill…Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid…
Rocketman…Bohemian Rhapsody…
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Movies or books or music and…
How I love science fiction fantasy…Guy Gavriel Kay… Jennifer Roberson…
And, of course, the great sci fi masters like Game of Thrones and Anne McCaffrey and…
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Movies or books or music and…
Classic rock and jazz and folk and movie music and classical…
Dire Straits. Beatles. Pink Floyd.. Rolling Stones… I want to visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame again!!!!!
Django Reinhardt. Edith Piaf. Sydney Bechet. Muddy Waters. John Coltrane. Louis Armstrong, Ella, and…
Tchaikowsky. Beethoven. Copland. And so many more…….
Filed under: Just for fun
The growing collection of DVDs for vacation joy…… So many delightful ones!
Another Aaron Sorkin script. Oh my gosh!! WOW! [My mom used to say, “wowdy dow.”]
And how about The American President?
And there’s so much more Aaron Sorkin.
Oh my. Oh wonderful.
Fun. Funny. Truthful. Angry. I’m so sad and angry. I know it’s “just a TV show” or “just a movie” … Because so much of this is real or at least feels real.
Filed under: Just for fun
A very special newsletter… TRANSFORMATION
And check out this article about dignity.
Just imagine if you and I treated others with dignity. Imagine if you and I were treated with dignity. And how about this: Treating everyone with dignity..
Filed under: Social Commentary
My friend Alene keeps sending me these funny things. So I’ll share some with you!!
The best part about getting older is… NOTHING. Getting older sucks.
You never appreciate what you have till it’s gone. Toilet paper is a good example.
I finally did it! Bought a new pair of shoes with memory foam insoles. No more forgetting why I walked into the kitchen.
Filed under: Just for fun
Did you read my blog of October 25? About the Certificate in Philanthropic Psychology?
Go back and read that blog. (And if, by chance, I didn’t make the connection properly…. So you can just click on “blog” in this sentence… just scroll Simone Uncensored until you get to October 25.)
My theory about research by Sargeant and Shang….. Anytime you have the opportunity to hear their research, just do it. I mean really…Fundraising research. Shouldn’t we all be reading fundraising research?
What fundraising research do you recommend? Send me your list(s) and I’ll include in a future post. Let’s learn and share with each other!!! Here’s a teeny tiny bit of research. Send me more!
AND NEVER EVER LET ME HEAR or SEE any fundraiser saying that s/he/they simply don’t have the time to read. WTF?!!!!!! Because yes, I’ve heard/seen commments like those.
Filed under: Nonprofit Fundraising-Fund Development, Resources / Research