NARRATIVE FOUND: Noel Ojeda's "A Little Dog and a Cat"

Found yesterday in the parking lot of the HEB at South Congress and Oltorf at 11:38 AM on Tuesday, 17 November.

Help me return original manuscript to rightful owner!

TECHNOLOGY: from the top of my tiny mountain, i can see that...

from the top of my tiny mountain, i can see that...



• we're looking at screens – large, small, tiny – more and more.
• we're looking a swatches of paper less and less (i'm contemplating NOT replacing the printer that broke down 3 months ago... big imac screen, a laptop, and a small iphone screen allow me to view or carry virtually any doc! savin' trees!)
• we go online for news rather than wait for 5:30 pm cst and charlie gibson (sorry, charlie!)
• we've all but given up on paper letters, landlines, newspapers, magazines, records, tapes, CDs, wait-and-watch t.v.
• we're gradually giving up paper books for electronic ones (did i write that?)
• when we don't know something, we get online
• when we want to expand our networks, we go online
• when we want to dialog at a distance, we go online
• if we can get a book online, we go online and get it (when we don't have leisure time to enjoy the amazing walls of books at bookpeople!)
• if we're smart about our shopping, we go online first
• when we miss a broadcast and want to revisit an old one, we go online

while publishers slept, millions and millions more became digital publishers and that is only going to continue.

our lives are very different than they were a decade ago.

we work with every digital tool imaginable in our workplace, yet we require our children to pick up and enjoy the tools of the past? (something desperately wrong with that picture...).

if we transform, we survive.

if we don't, we wither and die.

FILM: "Happiness Is" on HuffingtonPost's Impact Today

Word about our film, Happiness Is, appeared in today's HuffingtonPost's Impact Channel: FILM: Giving Back Will Make You Happy by Victoria Fine.



A big day for all of us on the "Happiness Is" team, indeed!

The film takes up the meaningful exploration of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and its relationship to giving, especially "giving of oneself toward the greater good."

We learned (and conclude in our film) that happiness is best achieved when folks engage in helping their communities through the simple act of giving.

We're excited to share what we've learned, and hope to help even more communities in need through our screening program across the country this year and next!

Our "Happiness Is" team is blessed, excited, and we hope to share our message with audiences across the country in 2009, 2010 and beyond.



Jim Bruno is Executive Producer of "Happiness Is."