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My message this week is the same as last week: Keep living your values-driven life. The world we’re waking up in right now is the same one we were waking [...]
My message this week is the same as last week: Keep living your values-driven life. The world we’re waking up in right now is the same one we were waking [...]
Most weeks, I don’t know what I’m going to say in this newsletter. I sit down, take a breath, and see what comes. I tried that twice already this week. [...]
Though I am hundreds of miles away in the Pacific Northwest, I haven’t been able to focus on much this week as the fires have raged in Los Angeles and [...]
I’m going to be a real scrooge here for a minute and say that I dislike many videos, memes, and social media stories that highlight grand gestures. Heroic, expensive, time-intensive [...]
Happy Advent, friends! In the Christian liturgy, Advent is the season leading up to Christmas Day. It’s a season of preparation and waiting. Advent is from the Latin “to come.” [...]
I was reminded this week of the concept of ubuntu which Desmond Tutu popularized: We are only who we are thanks to other people. This stands in stark contrast to [...]
I’m writing less than 24 hours after the election was called. If I didn’t owe my wonderful assistant Robin this newsletter by tonight, I’d be tempted to hide out. I [...]
It’s a big week for all of us. I haven’t used this platform to talk about the election, but it’s too much on my mind this week to pretend I’m [...]
In my corner of the world there’s been some very public, hard news about an important non-profit and I’m supporting some other groups having a hard time or recovering from [...]
I recently listened to Julia Louis Dreyfuss interview Jane Goodall. Julia asks Jane how it feels to be 90 and Jane says, “Well, I know what my mission on this [...]