Initially we endeavored to identify as many characteristics as we could and eventually we realized that, since they are constituents of a whole, efforts to enhance mindfulness need only focus on a relatively small number of characteristics.
Replete with pop-ups, flaps to open, tabs to pull and an accompanying miniature book retelling the story as a play, the whole effort is yet another triumph of ingenuity and sheer fun.
Po Murray added, "We have to remember this part has been a sprint, but this whole effort is a marathon".
In my first book, "Death of a Naturalist", the whole effort of the writing was to solidify the thing in language, block it out, make it embossed, until it became a kind of language braille of sorts.
Its lyrics describe a sparsely populated mental landscape and project a jittery sensibility that is hungry for consolation yet removed from most comforts; they are written in choppy free verse that is at once wired and conversational (sometimes to a fault); the whole effort is impressive in its sincerity and virtually unimpeachable in its distress.
Making people create multiple profiles is a bad idea and might make this whole effort a non-starter.
If the voters reject an agreement, the whole effort would have been for nothing.
In its most positive and optimistic light, the book and the whole effort gives a totally different spin to a man many commonly think of as a patent troll.
The whole effort is a glorious paradox.
Sadly, there is also little resolution of a central question behind the whole effort: Are religious organizations really more effective in providing social services than government or secular agencies?
