The Okayness of Life
The poet Blake says, “We are put on earth for a little while to learn to bear the beams of love.” The maddening conundrum here is that humans often have a hard time standing under these beams. We [...]
Cosmology of Mutuality
It’s a rainy weekday night. I’ve just finished with a client in Seattle and have decided to wait out the traffic for a couple hours before getting on the freeway. There’s construction on the Ship Canal Bridge, bringing traffic down [...]
In Praise of Caring
Today I facilitated an amazing group of leaders who work at a skilled nursing facility. They are so clear on their purpose and have such principled leadership that they don’t have the maladies that plague some other groups I’ve worked with. [...]
Earth Day is for All of Us
The first Earth Day was in 1970, less than two years after Apollo 8 astronauts sent the world a photograph of earth rising above the surface of the moon. In her amazing book Born of Fire [...]
Make Something
Coming home after swimming, I’m ravenous. I have an hour until my first meeting, time to make breakfast instead of just a quick bowl of yogurt or piece of toast. One of my longtime skills is knowing exactly [...]
Standing for Peace
I know you are out there—millions of other people who are saddened and horrified as the United States bombs Iran, making threats to decimate a whole civilization. It’s so abhorrent to me that I’ve been tempted to turn away. [...]