Thu.Jul 04, 2024

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Declare Your Independence Day – Information Overload Be Gone!

Clairification

Feeling a bit overloaded? It’s the new plague. And a highly contagious epidemic, from which no one is immune. Are you showing any symptoms? I feel like: I’m working all the time, but not getting that much accomplished. I’m working on 10 projects at once, but none get finished. My ‘to-do’ list never gets completed. I’m in meetings all day and don’t have time to work.

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Some thoughts on the Fourth of July 2024: gardening, “Being There,” and “A Separate Peace”

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Happy 4th of July in this troubled summer of 2024. I live in a New Urbanism-inspired Phoenix area exurb so I can walk or bike to the charming faux main street for coffee, while being shielded from the antisemitism and general chaos in many American cities. Still, as a grant writing consultant, I must stay current with public policy news and, like many of us, am experiencing enervating uncertainty*.