I'll end with yet another reprise of Carl Safina's recent reflection on CNN.com, which I cited in my posts on resilience: [U]npreparedness requires, one might say, quite a lot of preparation.
Willie Nelson's recent reflection on death is blunt too, though in keeping with his persona.
If recent reflection on the issue is any guide, the most pressing problem to address is this: Given that state-authorized coercion needs to be justified, and that the justification of state coercion requires the consent of the people, what role may religious reasons play in justifying state coercion?
Acumen Chief Innovation Officer Sasha Ditcher, in his recent reflection on Acumen's 15th anniversary and his ten years there, brilliantly noted: "If there's one thing I've learned in this time, it's that the only way to become the kinds of people who show up, who hammer away, and who do the work is by showing up, hammering away, and doing the work".
However, an underlying theme in recent reflections on how research partnerships work is the difficulty of sustaining and scaling up short-term achievements because of complex micro-political (e.g. power struggles between members) and macro political (e.g. the demands of the funding organization) processes [ 1- 3, 5].
At London's Hayward Gallery, Love Is What You Want presented the work of Tracey Emin from her initial recognition as one of the Saatchi Gallery's Young British Artists to her recent reflections on turning 50.
She recorded John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery," an old woman's story, in 1974, and on Thursday that song fit easily alongside more recent reflections on mortality: her own "Nick of Time" and David Gray's "Silver Lining".
There needs to be a change in mindset and a change of the game such as Gandhi accomplished in India and Tom Atlee has suggested for us in both Tao of Democracy and the more recent Reflections on Evolutionary Activism.
Recent reflection measurements on gold gratings not only confirmed this but also resulted in a reliable calibration.
There is in the recent literature a reflection on the worsening in satisfaction of primary care professionals [ 14], mainly physicians, which we have not observed.
