Wise Enterprise:

A Living Parable of Sound Business.

Travel:

Soleful trekking in Italy: The Lost Umbria.

Culture: (Music, Reads, Film, Performance)

"The Man Who Planted Trees" - a soulful animation (and book).

Techno-Babble:

1. Unravelling the website promotion mystery.

2. So, you want to do some Internet security shtick.

OtherWise Briefs: Short-Shorts about what's happening in the OtherWiseWorld

WELCOME Utne Readers & Other New Pups/.....Archived Retrievers.

TELEGATHERING: A new Series of BALD PRAGMATISM. Mon.9/14.

We WANT great links and fetches from you.

You want a panachous, riveting WEBSITE? Peter's back!

Plus, coaching for the bold in action & sacredly irreverent.

When you're ready for that travel adventure, business revelation, gift of music, techno-quandry, or evening in front of the squak machine - you'll be glad your Golden Retriever is on your lap.



WISE ENTERPRISE:

A Living Parable of Sound Business

Welcome to all those new subscribers from Utne Reader & WIE!

As we prepared to infuse your email bins with your first dose of Wise Enterprise, I'll share a little behind-the-scenes vignette:

This issue's Wise Enterprise (version 1) was a bulky-but-true, still-feels-like-August tome that mostly showed me that I haven't been in a business mood of late. C'est la verite, mes amis. And the truth is indeed a valuable market commodity.

So, I canned it. Not the truth, the article.

It happened during a telephone conversation with WiseMember, friend and coach Jay Perry where I lamented about the proposed piece. Something didn't feel quite right. Seemed just a wee too tediously "wise" for its own good.

He slyly, quite unexpectedly, eased up the volume on a pulsing, yet graceful cut from the 1967 "Fresh Cream" album... "I'm Free" -the lyric wafted over alternatively delicate and decisive guitar breezes, opening doors to past (born in 1952, for the curious) and present. "Clapton was barely beyond boyhood then", I mused incredulously.

And, upon inhaling that amazing elixir of Creamy*** music, out flew Wise Enterprise, version 1. Maybe for another occasion.

And so it went that sometime in the latter part of the 20th Century, a man, sitting in a comfortable cottage with maple floors situated in the Sierra California foothills, traded in a few extra wise words for a wee ride of freedom. Off to the mountains!

Seems like sound business to me. Even wise enterprise.

So, what splash of enslaving intelligence might you toss today? Your business needs you in one harmonious piece. Good fortune. You are.

***(new subscribers note: Hildegard and period ensembles are also in favor here)



CULTURE:

"THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES" (Lhomme qui plantait des arbres")
from a story by Jean Giono, directed by Frederic Back

Sometime, not so long ago in the early decades of this century, there were southern parts of France that people would escape from, if they could. Dry winds, isolated hilltop provincial towns, stretches of lonely, barren space. Hardly the post-card haven of lavender fields we see now.

In "The Man Who Planted Trees" we follow the true story, told in understated narration and rendered in mystical animation, of a zen-like man of the land who transforms a stark and arid wilderness into a haven of beauty, one tree at a time, one decade at a time. Through world wars, through puzzled and pompous governments, through the temptations of loneliness.

This 30-minute animation may leave you very quiet, yet inspired like the rustle of a quaking aspen or the scent of fresh lavender.

Call: Direct Cinema 1.800.525-0000

A great gift for whomever. Good for you and young pups, alike.

http://www.wisefools.com/grlinks/grfetches.html



TECHNO-Babble:

Clues to the website promotion mystery. Free resources:

1. If you're like us, you're justifiably puzzled by the state of affairs regarding the visibility of your website on search engines, Ask many ISP's, and if they are honest, they'll say - don't ask us. If you ask the website promoters, they say "we do a deal for you - we take care of everything, donna worry 'bout nothin'."

For FREE information on web site promotion and the rapidly changing search engine maelstrom DON'T MISS THIS! ...Generously offered by NetPromote:

Promotion 101: Web Site Marketing and Promotion Info Center. Free Articles, Resources, Tools, and Links to Help You Promote Your Site.

http://www.Promotion101.com/

2. SECURING YOUR WEBSITE FOR BUSINESS! A FREE online guide from VeriSign, one of the leading Internet security companies.

Safe Internet credit card sales: ever wonder how to pull it off?

Poetry, this is not. "The Zen of Credit Card Maintenance", also - not. However, this very useful, technical and tolerably self-promotional guide is a crash course on creating a secure means of transacting with your cyber-patrons.

After you read it, take a nap. You'll still need your ISP to help set everything up, but this internet security shtick will make more sense and you'll be paving the way for virtual shekels to flow into your actual income stream.

http://www.verisign.com/whitepaper_50/



TRAVEL:

Soleful trekking in Italy: The Lost Umbria

In "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" - Zeferrelli's great film of St. Francis of Assisi, there is a quiet revelation...for those with wandering soles.

It starts first as a question: where is this gorgeous scenery - wide open fields of grass, wildflowers gentle rolling hills, undotted by contemporary habitations and bald intrusions???

Upon investigation, we find it not only around Assisi, but on the other side of the mountain from the town, in open spaces, walled off from the coastal Adriatic. The area, known to some as the"lost Umbria"... suggests how St. Francis found God in nature. There are walking routes through Spello, Assisi and on to Artisanale Gubbio... Some research can craft your own itinerary, some of which suit cyclists.

An engaging option is to sign up with the "Footloose" guide and program with the Alternative Travel Group in England, a company you'll find described in our links page. They're humane, classy, and they know their stuff, something that becomes obvious, when you try to do it yourself. Autumn is a great time to go.

http://www.wisefools.com/grlinks/grlinks.html





OTHERWISE BRIEFS:

1. After a little tailwagging in Utne Reader & What is Enlightenment,we are pleased to WELCOME a couple hundred new pups who joined the circle.

   For a sniff of previous Golden Retrievers, go to the NEW archive section of the site

   http://www.wisefools.com/grlinks/grindex.html
   
   

2. A TELEGATHERING of BALD PRAGMATISM ...a new series. You're invited. No "crazy wisdom" here, much.

   Let's put our heads together on what we know about the best airfare sources, telephone rates, and tips for working from or to abroad. Working portable and cheap, when style is not an issue. Allah would approve...his camels too.

   No registration... Price of omission: one good tip...

   Just call 1 702 566-7816, MONDAY 5 PM Pacific. Right on time.

   The first 30 get on...nature of the bridge line- the rest are left in telephone purgatory.

   Don't worry if you don't get on. We'll post the GoodStuff.
   
   

3. Our Golden Retriever LINKS page is NOW UP in order to provide links to THE BEST filtered general interest sites on the web.

   http://www.wisefools.com/grlinks/grlinks.html

   Help OtherWise become Panache Central by sniffing out, among other things the best from the InterNet Forest and general information jungle thicket. Also, refer any GoodStuff that is daring enough to not have a website. Enterprises with only a telephone are considered legitimate - even attractive.
   
   

4. YOU WANT A WEBSITE, PUPS? Peter's back from a month in Europe and needs a vacation from his vacation. Have OtherWise Design create a compelling presence for you and your business.

   peter@otherwisedesign.com
   
   

5. By the WAY, in case you did not know or had a memory lapse, your Chief Executive WiseFool does personal and business coaching, for OtherWise types who favor constructive action in the material plane.

   If you are interested in getting from here to there in what's important to you:

   william@wisefools.com

http://www.wisefools.com

We are constantly developing resources for you and having fun roaming and rambling through the bushes in search of good berries.



Inspired to comment or suggest? Please place your genius here (remember, mercifully brief, - we need our nap time too):

retriever@wisefools.com

By the way, don't take it too personally if we don't respond to you personally...

We ARE interested, and you may find your comments and recommendations immortalized in future issues, or even at the OtherWise web site.

Finit.