Vision Magazine - January 2007

January 2007

Visionary Artist

As long as I can remember, I have loved color and painting. I am fascinated by patterns in nature, textiles, and organic forms. My work has grown and matured into a symphony of color, repetition of shapes, and lush brushstrokes full of deep, rich hues. When painting I use numerous layers of oil color that are mixed as I work, while adding more layers of accent colors as final touches. After years of training and painting “objects”, I have been completely liberated and now simply enjoy the movement of color and shape. Along with the sheer pleasure of creating moods and feelings through paint, I find joy in knowing that each viewer sees something in my paintings that is uniquely theirs. Continued...

Art of Living

The Ecology of Community

Ecology is the study of interdependency among the innumerable elements of a beautifully interwoven whole. Impacting any single part will have unforeseeable effects on the rest, and one cannot understand any of the constituent parts outside of their greater context. Similarly, an ecology of communities looks at the ways in which human societies interact with, are influenced by and dependent upon the more-than-human world. Continued...

Bay Area

Life takes Bread and Roses
Remembering Mimi Fariña and her lasting impact on society's most isolated members

On any city bus tour carrying Bay Area visitors around San Francisco, attention to architecture generally hovers over the Golden Gate Bridge. Granted, this 4,200-foot-long bridge is no doubt an architectural marvel with the capacity to transport thousands of people everyday. But even greater still are those rare forms of architecture––forgotten on the city bus tour––with the capacity to move people everyday. More than 33 years ago, singer and songwriter Mimi Fariña was able to put a vision and a passion for people and performance to use, Continued...

Books & Listening

Conscious Business:
How to Build Value Through Values

Fred Kofman | Sounds True Press

What would happen if all the conscious energy we put into our personal lives was funneled into our professional lives? According to Fred Kofman––visionary teacher, business consultant, and now author of Conscious Business, a book that outlines the importance of emotional engagement in the workplace––the result would be higher levels of efficiency, profitability and, not necessarily dependent on these two things, happier people.

Banker to the Poor:
Micro Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty Muhammad Yunus | PublicAffairs

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is truly a visionary and a tireless voice of compassion in leading the path to relieving poverty in even the most destitute villages. Working in 1976 in the Economics department of a Bangladesh university, Yumus became disillusioned and frustrated. He was teaching students economical theories, while outside the university campus famine was ravaging the surrounding communities

Vision Cafe

MISSION POSSIBLE: A Powerful Audio Program to Help You Find Passion and Purpose in Life

A conversation with Drew Heriot, Director of THE SECRET, and Michele Blood

Michele: Drew you certainly have accomplished a great “mission possible” with The Secret; people are watching it all over the world and are waking up to The Law Of Attraction and how our thoughts and feelings do create our world. Thank you so much for your amazing contribution to the consciousness of our planet. Today I would like to go beyond that and talk about purpose for Vision readers, and how sometimes challenges that come up in life can actually be a blessing in disguise to get us on track.