Ariane’s Blog
A place to explore, embrace & make change happen
What's Around the Next Corner?
“None of us know what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.” —Kathleen Norris What was the best change...
Changes in China
Having grown up in Hong Kong, I have a strange and close familiarity with all things from that part of the world. It’s therefore not surprising that when I hear and watch the tragedies going on in Tibet and the uprisings being squashed by the...
Remember the Good Changes
Change is a funny thing. When we’re faced with any sort of transition, we often think things like: “Change is hard” and “I hate change.” We don’t look forward to change—we often say that we’d be a lot...
Saving the World, One Hug at a Time
Can you imagine hugging 100 people in a row? How about 20,000? Amma, known as the “hugging saint,” has done just that—over and over again. She is this tiny little woman from India, who has hugged everyone from United Nations’...
Take the Time to Dare
Change is often about something new, something unknown and something we either can’t predict or couldn’t see coming. Many of the people I meet have some change they wish they could make or a dream that’s been forgotten, but they are...
My Interview with Dick Parsons
Does change make the man? Or does the man make the change? That was one of the things I contemplated when interviewing former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons in an audio interview for my podcast, Change Nation. It was his first time really speaking openly...
Environmental Change—It's really time now!
Each day it seems we are given more evidence of the severity of the environmental crisis. For example, a report came out of the UN this past weekend about how the Glaciers are shrinking at record rates. This could prove to be catastrophic since it...
