Our Voice
We think a lot. This is our space to share what's on the top of our mind. We hope we don't bore you.
I think about this quite often.
The reality is that in any given day, I'm working on such a diversity of projects with such a great group of clients that my creative self has to flip a switch at a moment's notice. One moment I'm writing an annual appeal letter for a nonprofit that serves an immediate need in a community, and then the next I'm designing artwork for a show that explores the inner turmoil in a family, and then the next I'm working on a media pitch about about a family foundation.
We are very excited about a new project with the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) at the Smithsonian Institution. Matt and I recently had the privilege of spending a few days with the amazing staff of the museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC and in the Cultural Resource Center in Suitland, Maryland. It is inspiring to spend time with people so passionate and collectively focused on a mission.
One evening, we were dreaming up big ideas for the future... ideas that energized us, excited us, that were challenging to us, and that we hoped one day would be possible. We talked about a community space... a place where people could go to work. To innovate. To be present. To retreat. And to connect. With others, but just as importantly, with themselves.
On Saturday, Dima and I revved up the Mini Cooper and ventured out of Boston to North Reading, Massachusetts, to attend an afternoon celebration of "everyone who is near and dear to us." There was tons of food, a pool for kids to swim in... even big tents strung with little twinkling lights.
And then there was the small box collecting money, tucked away in the corner.
Happy Labor Day, folks.
It is Monday morning on this beautiful Labor Day Weekend in Boston (seriously, we had amazing weather). The Numad offices are technically closed today, but I've been up since 4:30am (couldn't sleep, and I had to drive our friends Karen and Matt to the airport at 6am... they're great people from Iowa who flew to Boston to stay with us for the long weekend).
This morning I'm writing this blog post—our first for The Numad Group and admittedly, my first personally ever—from a restaurant in Davenport, Iowa. I'll be having breakfast in just a bit with an alum from my alma mater who is speaking at the same leadership conference I will be talking at this Saturday.
