Last month I wrote about the sponsorship matching gift opportunity to get a student through a year of school with PathLight. The response was amazing! Below is a video update that went out to the PathLight contact list (which, by the way, you should join if you aren’t already on it). This short video has [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Matching Gift Update
Posted: 19th January 2012 by Roy Goble in Belize, PathLightTags: Belize students, PathLight International, Sponsorship program
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Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #24
Posted: 18th January 2012 by Roy Goble in Book ReviewsTags: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
My parents, both born in the early 1920′s, struggled through the Great Depression. Their families were poor even before the stock market collapse of 1929. My mother was born in an Oklahoma coal mining community. My father and his siblings were moved by my Grandfather from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl. Both of [...]
The Intersection Event
Posted: 16th January 2012 by Roy Goble in Goble Properties, Junkyard ManagementTags: Intersection Conference, Pixar Studios
A few months ago my friend Mark Rhode asked if I would attend The Intersection Event on January 14. He explained that it would be a gathering of 350 innovators and social change agents who want to explore ways to change the world for the better. The conversation would revolve around philanthropy, innovation, and the [...]
Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life – #25
Posted: 12th January 2012 by Roy Goble in Book ReviewsTags: Charles Schulz, Favorite books, Peanuts
One of the wisest things my Mom did when I was growing up was to make reading a treat. It all started when I’d go shopping with her and, like most kids, pester her for my favorite things. She seldom gave in, whether I was asking for a new Hot Wheels car or a favorite [...]
Twenty Five Books That Influenced My Life
Posted: 10th January 2012 by Roy Goble in Book Reviews, FamilyTags: Favorite books, Top 25 books
Last year I read 25 Books Every Christian Should Read and it made me wonder what 25 books I would recommend if I were on the editorial board that put such a book together. I started jotting down a few that came to mind and the list just kept growing. But then it dawned on [...]
A few years ago I posted an insight about the poor and the rich. It really wasn’t a well written or particularly well developed insight; just a few notes I had pulled together and felt were worth sharing. It resonated with a lot of people back then, and since even more tend to read my [...]
It’s official: I read 119 books in 2011. Roughly 10 books a month. Definitely a record for me. No way I’ll approach that in 2012. Perhaps ever. If you are interested, here is the complete list of books that I read this year. It consists of about 25 books on theology or faith, about the [...]