In this painting, art does a wonderful job imitating life.
I love the flower pot as well as the flowers.
Nature, in real and artistic ways, fills us with renewed life. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
In this painting, art does a wonderful job imitating life.
I love the flower pot as well as the flowers.
Nature, in real and artistic ways, fills us with renewed life. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Beautiful Flowers 4 A Beautiful Day!
Life is Beautiful!It's a gift.
O - Change The World - O
"Hurt people hurt people.
That's how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation.
Break the chain today.
Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness.
Greet grimaces with smiles.
Forgive and forget about finding fault.
Love is the weapon of the future."- Yehuda Berg, The Kabbalah Center
Our job in this world is to do the most good that we can do!
Breaking The Cycle Of Trauma
Mikva (Jewish ritual bath) = Tikva (hope)
Rebirth and renewal (from the immersion in the holy water).
Build your family in sanctity!
Purity leads to sanctity.
"The day is short and the task is great."
Mikva = Tikva
Make The Oy Vey Go Away
Water Cross
Even Our Water
Five Lessons From The Chilean Rescue
There was a terrific keynote at the 1105 Government Information Group enterprise architecture conference this week in Washington, DC by Mr. Armando Ortiz, who presented “An Executive Architect’s View of IT Asset Investment and EA Governance Strategies.”
The highlight for me was Mr. Ortiz, view of EA gap analysis, which goes something like this (i.e. in my words):
Enterprise architects, supported by business and technical subject matter experts across the organization, develop the current and target architectures. The difference between these is what I would call, the architecture gap, from which is developed the transition plan (so far not much new here).
But here comes the rest…
The gap between the current IT assets and the target IT assets results in one of two things, either:
New IT investments are a strategic, long-term strategy and retooling the existing IT assets is an operational, short-term strategy.
In terms of the corporate actors, you can have either:
For new IT investments:
For existing IT assets:
What the difference who is managing the IT assets?
Mr. Ortiz went on to describe the EA plans developing three CIO WIFMS (what’s in it for me):
The link between IT assets, investment/containment strategies, business and enterprise IT actors, and the benefits to the CIO and the enterprise was a well articulated and perceptive examination of enterprise architecture and gap analysis.
Gap Analysis and Enterprise Architecture