Welcome to FLOW!

FLOW is an emerging movement dedicated to liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good and directing it towards creating sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all in our lifetime. The FLOW Movement reflects a FLOW Worldview, integrating appreciation for economic freedom, voluntary exchange, individual initiative, combined with social and environmental consciousness, and embodies FLOW Principles, which include commitments to human flourishing, non-violence, diversity, and radical tolerance.

Click on their names for links to articles by FLOW founders Michael Strong and John Mackey.

Member Platform: Sharon Bousquet

Boo-skay Bio (People always ask where I'm from - a convoluted answer awaits when one has gypsy blood. I've moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, Iowa, Vancouver BC; Santa Cruz, Hawaii, Austin and Wimberley (TX). As of last June, we're back in Iowa. For now. :-) ~ SB

Born in South Philadelphia to a musical family, Sharon grew up on the East Coast in towns like Chester, PA and Wilmington, DE. Voices from the left side of the radio dial began making an impression during the long vacations her family took each summer. With her father behind the wheel of a wood-paneled Ford station wagon and a small Scotty travel trailer rolling behind, the voices of Joni Mitchell, CSNY, and the progressive rock melodies of Yes, Led Zeppelin and Heart took hold. Those long car rides throughout the West left ample time for an artist’s imagination to rise, for a writer to be born.

Myself for a Living

It’s not “I want the big house”, it’s not “I need a new car”,
It’s more that I’ve been poured into a small clay jar.
It’s more a push inside, it’s like the voice of God telling me
to make the best of what I’m given, be myself for a living.

I have a heart-wrecked home, the one I love is sailing,
happy on a sea of my tears in a boat of my failings.
It’s like a push inside, it’s like the voice of God,
Telling me to make the best of what I’m given,
be my Self for a living, be my Self for a living.

You may think it’s fame that calls,
but it’s really not the point at all- this is who I am,
it’s my wedding band, it’s my wedding band.

So if you hurt like dying, or if your heart’s on fire,
either way is true as a pathway through desire.
To take that push inside as the voice of God,
telling you to make the best of what you’re given,
be yourself for a living, be yourself for a living.

I recall a vow once spoken, long before I was a girl,
something like a mission, gifts we carry for this world,

to take that push inside as the voice of God,
telling you to make the best of what you’re given,
be yourself for a living, be yourself for a living,

I’ll be myself for a living, be myself for a living.

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In the spirit of Sharon's lyrics and the Age of Abundance, we encourage you to read Michael Strong's short piece entitled "A Tale of Two Idealists ."

Brink Lindsey's The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture is a profoundly optimistic book about American politics and culture. In an age in which political partisans are more strident than ever, this is a paradoxical conclusion. But Lindsey meticulously examines the political and cultural history of post-war America to provide a wealth of evidence for the notion that in the past fifty years Americans have, on the one hand, become far more socially tolerant and liberal and, on the other hand, have preserved core values of hard work, personal responsibliity, entrepreneurial initiative, and human decency. Lindsey has a keen eye for contrasting the comical rhetorical extremes of both Left and Right against the sensible, everyday, evolving common sense of mainstream America. This book is a healthy restorative treatment for those who are overcome with political anger; it is a well-documented reminder that over the course of decades, most of those claims that outrage people in the moment collapse of their own absurdity a few years later.

Sharon Bousquet's Temple features Myself for a Living.