Martin Kimeldorf
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ESSAYS & BOOKLETS
These essays have been previously published and are represented for your enjoyment. They belong to a larger library of essays and articles, and represent the best known and most forward thinking pieces of their time. Many of the pioneering thoughts and notions are still true, even—dare we say—cutting edge today.
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Aging
How Do You Get Comfortable In Your—Aging—Skin?
A meditation on transition…”talkin' bout my generation…”
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Senior Masters Program—A Concept Paper
A great deal of research confirms that people live longer and healthier lives when they remain curious, stay connected socially, and find useful roles. Longer and healthier lives translates into fewer payments for drugs, treatments, social services, and care. The question becomes, “How can we help people make a successful transition upon retirement which leads to the most positive experience possible?” This paper outlines that can deliver the services, a adapted from rites of passages provided for graduating seniors in school.
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Gourmet Aging—the essay
Recent immigrants to the land of senior-citizenry bring with them new attitudes and expectations. Rather than “golden years,” the newly-gray pursue the notion of active years. Unlike the "retired and huddling masses of yore," the aging boomers are embracing their elder-stage of life with a revitalized and renewed gusto. The newly enfranchised seniors are looking for a fresh menu of options, but too often they find themselves facing the same old dishes: workshops on travel, financial planning, and health. This essay takes off in a new direction.
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Play & Leisure
Balancing Your Work And Play Ethics
"Play Now Or Pay Later" is the essential message of my book Serious Play. As a bonafide workaholic I wrote the piece as therapy. I guess I felt guilty or at least unbalanced after having concentrated for so long on the topic of work. Later this became a book and a hit in the field related to workaholism.
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Leisure: A Hidden Counseling Tool
The power of leisure counseling to heal, re-structure, and re-build one’s life remains unknown, neglected, or hidden from most career and mental health service providers. In the complex and aging 1990s leisure counseling deserves immediate re-examination! Leisure counseling can catapult a client from passivity into active participation and resolution. By following a basic four-step method, you can integrate this hidden tool into everyday practice. This process will be illustrated in two case studies.
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Digital Photo-Art
Once Upon A Time And Other –Ologies
After mucking up a picture in Photoshop, I rediscover the basic artistic lesson of simplifying. This describes my approach to creating digital photo-art. Anyone who has spent hours on an image and then disliked the final result will find solace in this essay, and a few useful tips.
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Digital Folk Art
This informal essay attempts to draw a connection between folk art and digital art—and the common roots they share at times. It draws upon my studies of art and science.
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Philosophical
Work, Education, And The Quality of Life
Reconsidering Some Twentieth Century Myths.....
By Martin Kimeldorf and Howard Kimeldorf.
This expansive essay examines the myth of high tech in contrast with the low-tech realities we must live with. This piece is far outside mainstream thinking and sloganeering about schooling, jobs, and politics-in fact, it had to published abroad in order to get a hearing! Anyone interested in a unique analysis of the decline of skilled labor, education, and families will surely want to read this work. This paper was recognized as "Best Paper" in the IJCM journal in 1993. The award was made by MCB Press which publishes 120 journals annually. Write to Rod Davies, International Journal of Career Management, PO Box 709, Toowong Queensland, Australia 4066.
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3B2K Scrapbook#7
This is a scrapbook of moments. It begins with a bicycle ride, journeys across the desert of cancer, and comes to rest at a victory barbecue banquet. These 36 pages contain a story, letters, nominations, photos, news articles, and recipes. A love story as well as a battle plan for confronting the serpentine ugliness of cancer written by the partner of a breast cancer survivor. 3B2K could be considered a formula for finding emotional strength and recovering balance by choosing to live normally during abnormal times. The scrapbook is about declaring war on the Medusa-head of disease and rallying friends, old and new, to your side. This booklet is written for patients, partners, and friends enduring their trek through a midnight moment. If you just want to read the original essay 3B2K that too is available.
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Work
Using Job Search Portfolios In An Uncertain Labor Market
This blurb was written in the late 1990s and is still true today: As the century winds down on a mixed review, one thing is clear--the way we work and the way we search for work has changed dramatically. It will take most people longer to find a job, and they'll have to employ creative approaches to either locate or create opportunities for training and employment. Some suggest utilizing electronic job searches, others talk about internships and career fitness. Kimeldorf advocates the use of portfolios in this essay.
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Expanding The Reach of Career Portfolios
By Martin Kimeldorf and Barbara Hagy
Today, the career portfolio magic is finding its way into every facet of career development. In the last several years, more and more books and articles have described new formats and new uses for career portfolios. These include enhancing student learning, expanding one’s presentation skills during an interview, and transforming routine employee evaluation checklists and performance reviews into genuine dialogue about shared goals. The emerging power of a career portfolio will be discussed in light of it’s ability to transform recent developments in career portfolios, current experiments, and visions for the future.
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Help Wanted…a Play script
This award winning play script about unemployment is a story about with a wood mill worker who loses his job, and then his dreams. Eventually his relationships deteriorate with his wife, friends, and handicapped son. The search for work and final renewal helps create a new appreciation for unemployed and dislocated workers. This play won 3 playwriting contests in all 3 west coast states. (1982)
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Booklets for Chump Change: $3.00 each (via paypal)
Cosmic Coding, an essay
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Why would a professional writer spend over 20 years writing, researching, and revising a single 10 page essay? Perhaps because he has been trying to make sense of the life-and-death cycle within the cosmos since he was a kid. This essay attempts to connect the dots between cosmology and reincarnation, evolution and the genome, while integrating physics, metaphysics and our thought processes. Cosmic Coding wraps the notion of mortality inside a magical stellar blanket cavorting through time and space. The work develops unique views of instincts, purpose, inherited gifts, and something called the Information Sphere. |
Camping On The Edge
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Short stories, essays, poems, and proverbs
I don't know about you, but for me, I want more treats in my life. And I think this nourishment should not be limited to food calories. Think of this book as a sampler of homemade remedies, concocted from moments of anxiety, humor, and reflection. The ingredients are crafted from words, and packaged in the enclosed proverbs, stories, letters, poems and essays. In sum, When you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. |
Being In Love, Forever (The Chapbook Sampler)
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For over 30 years Martin wrote his wife Judy 3 poems annually. While never begun as a book-making project, he came to view the 90+ poems is an accomplishment in these cynical and self-centered times. After retiring from teaching he submitted a handful of poems in the summer of 2009 and all were snapped up. This chapbook sample is extracted from Martin’s larger collection How to Be In Love, Forever. Come turn the pages of a true life love story. Then borrow lines, ideas, or entire poems to share with your special partner. |
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