Even if you can't tell a goose from a cardinal, you might, on visiting Cave Creek Canyon, want to dangle binoculars around your neck as a form of social blending.
When work and social lives blend, excessive drinking may be considered part of the job.
A BIG CITY'S SMALL TOWN WAYS -- In Houston, where Enron flourished, politics, business and social relationships blend so thoroughly that the distinctions sometimes lose their meaning.
In many ways, Mr. Bacanovic's crowded business and social lives blended into one.
Nigerian-American poet Iyeoka Okoawo treats song as a much-needed social force, blending her poetry, voice, activism and vision in Revolution.
Still, this mix of social dances, blended and repackaged for the concert stage, is by now a familiar formula, in contrast to the oeuvre of the man who inspired its creation: Arthur Bispo do Rosário, who spent five decades in a mental institution in Rio de Janeiro, creating what has since been recognized as a masterly body of mixed-media work.
And then there are the relatively new players like Jim Kimsey, a founder of AOL and chairman of the AOL Foundation, who has had a catalytic effect on the capital's social life, blending the political establishment with the new high-tech entrepreneurs.
What began as an effort to involve communities as partners in the prevention of extremist violence quickly took on a life of its own, morphing into a large-scale experiment in social engineering, blending security haphazardly with questions of cohesion, identity and integration.
The startup was founded by former Starbucks executive Jane Park as a way to blend social connections, recommendations with cosmetics and beauty retail and e-commerce "my vision is to bring a new social approach to the beauty industry by having a two-way conversation online with our fans, incorporating their ideas directly into our rapid product innovation cycle," she explains.
All are led by clean-cut 40-somethings who blend social liberalism (support for same-sex marriage and opposition to the death penalty) with acceptance of the free market.
