A beginning

Hi everyone. I am in the process of moving my blog over to blogger. Here is the first post I made about a year ago. It gives you a sense of what I hope this blog will be for many years to come.

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As I stood, going up the escalator this with people from the subway, I looked around me. What I saw was quite simply amazing - people. People from all over the world, rising the escalator together. The amazing thing was that there was no dominant race or background among us. We were all rising the escalator together on the same hot, sunny, beautiful day.

And then I realized, like most of the world, over half the people around me work in small businesses. Dry cleaners, restauranteurs, penny store clerks, news stand owners, tailors, tech entrepreneurs, artists, musicians, care-givers. For me, it was perhaps a picture perfect capsule of what the world could be: a diversity of cultures, no one dominant, no one threatening, no on scared - "small" individuals, "massive" in our potential collective strength, all rising together.

I smiled at the possibility of what could be, if some way, everyone had a chance to rise, a part of that great diversity. If only there were a force strong enough, fair enough, to give everyone around the world enough of a chance to realize their full potential and in the end, be happy. One beside the other without fear, uncertainty, torment or abuse along the way.

Things indeed are changing. The Internet is the great leveler, the great platform for people to rise together. The time is coming for everyone to get a fair opportunity to fulfill themselves, without constrain, diversion or pain.

My hope is that this blog "rise of the little guy" will be a place where we can all go, to share a vision of possibility, celebrate the success of people, the smallest in individual power, yet the most massive in collective energy, in their quest to realize their full potential.

I look forward to sharing what I see, what I experience in my life. I am excited and look forward to connecting with others, hearing, joining, reacting to the rise of the little guy.