Cornerstones features the writings of Jennifer StJohn and the Fusion Group editorial team. Enjoy these insightful and engaging essays for a different take on business, life and the pursuit of success and serenity.
The Blues, Pattern Recognition and Fusion’s “Ready, Set, Go!®”
“You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.
Walk right in, it’s around the back.
Just a half mile from the railroad tracks.
You can get anything you want, at Alice’s Restaurant.”
– Arlo Guthrie
American Songwriter and Singer
(1947 – )
Life is a Game
“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil-Rights Leader
(1929 – 1968)
Recommended any good books lately? How about a great movie? […]
Madness & The Moon
“The sage points at the moon.
The student sees only the finger.”
—Taoist Proverb
“I don’t wish to go among mad people!” said Alice,
“You really can’t help that,” said the Cheshire Cat, “because most everyone is.”
— Alice Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Endless, Cheerful, Repeated Coaching
“Man, you gotta have your head in the game every second of every play. You doze for a second, and the other guys are all over you and that’s the down, the quarter and the whole game. Too many games, and your career is done!”
—NFC Playoff Team Member
If a football team went a week without being intensely coached about the opposition, the
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Light Emerges from Darkness
“There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.”
— Rumi
Sufi Poet and Mystic
1207 – 1273
Lots of people are upset about lots of things — some, with actual reason. On reflection, it seems to come down to being Critical of Ourselves or Critical of Others. […]
