Shadow Projection 1.0
I believe that human conflict can be an opportunity for personal transformation and communal enrichment. I do know that this is a bridge...
OWLcourage
a blog invested in hope and creative possibility
- Nov 22
- 4 min
Mansplaining
I recently had the pleasure of learning yet again from one of my favorite teachers, seventeen-year-old Grady, my oldest grandson. Grady...
- Nov 15
- 5 min
e=mc2
My first experience with this simple equation was in many ways life-changing for me, a critical step in my immersion in the world of...
- Nov 6
- 4 min
Profit
I am old enough to remember a time when corporate America acknowledged compelling motives other than profit. Today, it has seemed to me,...
- Nov 1
- 5 min
Nine Months
Nine months ago, I posted my first blog on OWLcourage. Any woman who has experienced a pregnancy develops an often unexamined awareness...
- Oct 20
- 4 min
Elephants and Rhinos
A dear and cherished friend occasionally feels compelled to affirm her conviction about my life purpose: “You are a truth teller!” She...
- Oct 17
- 4 min
"Severe Dysfunction"
I am rather certain that I am not the only person with dramatically engorged “mail boxes”, awash in both email and text messages. This is...
- Oct 12
- 1 min
Possibilities
Yet another poem.... Possibilities Joy lurks in shadowed crevices among the shattered shards of its own cautious history of gains and...
- Oct 3
- 4 min
Regret
Like snow, sleet and rain, emotions show up. Many float through our lives and move on, sometimes barely noticed. Others persist....
- Sep 29
- 3 min
Gratitude
A few days ago, my morning journaling found me wandering through my grasp of human gratitude. In searching for clarity, I realized that...
- Sep 23
- 4 min
Sparkles
I have been a student of complexity science for decades. Recently, I had the opportunity to engage in the optimal role of a student: I...
- Sep 20
- 4 min
Longevity 1.0
I keep tripping over this recent headline in all my on-line news sources: “Ninety Will Be the New 40 in 10 Years' Time”. Wow, poor timing...
- Sep 15
- 3 min
Collapse
Deconstruction has consequences. Things collapse. When I started this blog in January, 2022, we were still crawling out of our Covid...
- Sep 13
- 1 min
Beleaguered
Time for another poem, shining a light on our times and the challenges and opportunities that they present. Beleaguered You have ever...
- Sep 3
- 4 min
Mistakes
I published my first book when I was 50 years old. I had numerous professional publications by then, and an expansive track record of...
- Aug 30
- 4 min
Story
Story is so central in human existence that it often goes unexamined. It actually has two dominant meanings, which in my experience...
- Aug 24
- 3 min
Humor 2.0
I did not anticipate Humor 2.0 would show up so soon! Go figure!! In 1986 I was awarded a three-year Kellogg Foundation Leadership...
- Aug 14
- 4 min
Yin Yang
The picture above is the graphic image of the title of this blog: Yin Yang. Because I had committed to using only my own photography in...
- Aug 7
- 4 min
Walking Sticks for Elders
Above is a picture of my “walking sticks”, pretentiously posing under the signage explaining the history of Rocky Fork Metro Park in New...
- Aug 1
- 4 min
Humor 1.0
I picked this title, “Humor 1.0”, because on my personal list of concepts shaping my understanding of courage, humor is near the top. ...
- Jul 27
- 1 min
Change Happens
You may have noticed that this blog has a "new look"! I have switched platforms and happily feel this option is better for my purposes. ...
- Jul 14
- 3 min
Transitions
Transitions, in the broadest sense, (and the one I am discussing here), are generally understood to be the processes and/or periods of...
- Jul 8
- 3 min
Trifecta
Turns out that the Supreme Court’s action to eliminate a woman’s constitutional right to abortion was merely the “canary in the coal ...
- Jun 28
- 6 min
Churn
It is 1 AM, and I am finally writing this, a gesture of desperation since sleep eludes me. Churn refers to agitation, disturbance, ...
- Jun 20
- 4 min
Warriors!
The Golden State Warriors just won the NBA national championship. I wrote about my fascination with them while chronicling the strange...
- Jun 7
- 2 min
Fragrance
I learned, in searching for a title for this post, that aroma, scent and fragrance share meanings, however fragrance is usually reserved...
- May 29
- 3 min
Power
Early in my training to work in conflict resolution, I realized that most conflicts I encountered in my work were not about beliefs,...
- May 21
- 4 min
ESPN
I am a Golden States Warriors fan, largely a function of fascination with their culture shaped by their most recent NBA championship runs...
- May 11
- 3 min
Easement
The word easement has two distinctly different meanings. This is a story about the convergence of the two meanings: First Meaning – a ...
- May 3
- 4 min
Roe v. Wade
My first direct experience with abortion happened in 1966, eight years before the 1973 passage of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling...