Unsubscribes and Other Gifts of Rejection
I want people to love me. More than that, I want them to like me. I want them to think I’m funny, smart, helpful, wise, kind, intuitive, quick-witted. I want them to like my Instagram [...]
The Labyrinth of your Inbox
I walked the labyrinth at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco this week. Making my way toward the center and back out again, my body remembered all the other times I’ve walked this labyrinth and others—a [...]
Worth the Work
After a lot of planning, my client and I facilitated a big gathering yesterday, bringing board and staff members of a local non-profit together. We had several rounds of the design, wondering, “How can [...]
Eight kinds of time
Sometimes my husband says to me, “You need to go on a walk. Now.” He is familiar with my “Eight Kinds of Time,” and can sense when one of them is low. In this case--time [...]
Too Soon to Tell
My smart son is taking an evolutionary ecology class, and he told me something extraordinary on the phone last night. A small animal—let’s say a marmot—will risk making a noise to warn of predators even [...]
The Heart of the Matter
I was around a leader recently who didn’t seem to have come home to themself. They were smart and polite, but I thought to myself, “I wouldn’t want to follow them anywhere.” A lot of [...]