Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 August 2017

MC Sync-Link 9

Member Care Update--September 2017

During 2017 we are syncing our CORE MC entries with our monthly MC Updates. Essentially, we'll add a monthly weblog entry that contains brief excerpts from the MC Update for that month. By linking their two strap lines together, the purpose and potential for connecting these two MCA tools becomes clear: "expanding the global impact of member care...reflections, research, and resources for good practice." May these materials encourage and equip you as you endeavor to practice member care well, with character, competence, and compassion.
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Summary—101 MC Updates
Traveling along GMC-Highway 101.
Click HERE to access this issue.


This is our 101st Update. We are calling it the “Global Member Care—Highway 101" (GMC-101). Come and travel with us as on this resource highway as we review the MC Updates that we have done over the past several years. Think of this summary Update as a major member care thoroughfare (tool!) that is making hundreds of core and cutting edge resources accessible to our colleagues around the world.

 
More personally, the GMC-101 is also a nostalgic reminder for us of Highway 101 in California, and especially some of its beach routes (joining with Pacific Coast Highway 1) which have been a special part of our lives over the years. We finish the Update with some important reflections on the relevance of global integration as we travel along GMC-101.  So...welcome to GMC-101--spread the word!

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Kelly and Michèle


Thursday, 17 March 2016

Wednesday, 5 March 2008

Member Care and Beauty

Pacific Presence
Twenty-five years, today in Marina del Rey
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Blue-jeaned
unfurled hair yore-gleaned
elven-fair
A pre-Spring day
to meet and play
along the strand
Venetian sand
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The time had come
I had become
entranced
enthralled
engulfed
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Par la mystériuese et très belle
mystical magical Michèle.
Happy anniversary, amor de mis sueños.
5 March 1983---5 March 2008
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Hi folks.
I could not resist putting up some prose about my dear wife, Michele.
Our first meeting was in Marina del Rey and Venice Beach, California.
We were both studying psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology.
Michele came over one Saturday morning to go skating at the beach.
I had never seen her in blue jeans nor "in" her metre-length hair.
As a 26-year old California guy, I guess I noticed things like that.
Neither had I heard her share about her travels as a Global Nomad.
I was so glad that I had ironed the sweatshirt that I was wearing...
We started to talk about other countries, spirituality, dreams...
This faery princess...with her pacific presence...captivated me.
Eventually, we went skating along the beautiful coastline.
And we even got married.
About 2.5 years later.
God is good.