Gratitude
A few days ago, my morning journaling found me wandering through my grasp of human gratitude. In searching for clarity, I realized that...
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- 7 days ago
- 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 15
- 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 9
- 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 29
- 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 21
- 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 8
- 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 30
- 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 22
- 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 12
- 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 4
- 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...
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Dawn
I start my day at my dining room table, looking eastward through glass doors to my back yard where Spring is currently laboring to...
- Apr 27
- 3 min
Really ?!!??
I entered the convent at the age of 16. Undeniably, this was an unusual place for rafting the developmental white waters of late...
- Apr 17
- 3 min
Normal
Prior to the Covid pandemic, there were observable and more subtle fissures in the fabric of life in the US. Many manifested as ...
- Mar 31
- 3 min
Words
My brother Bob, three years my senior, has been (and continues to be) a source of some of my most important life lessons, emerging from...
- Mar 24
- 4 min
OWGs
The global pandemic-induced deconstructions (and some new constructions) continue to emerge, fascinate and inform me. One has caught my...
- Mar 17
- 3 min
Green
I have spent about half of my life in climates with four clearly identifiable “seasons”, which for me includes my least favorite, the...
- Mar 16
- 3 min
Questioning
As the nervous exploration of our country’s flirtation with authoritarianism bubbles up in a variety of media, the embedded value...
- Mar 7
- 3 min
Ukraine
To even start this post makes me anxious, and yet, it is our current shared reality. I want to be respectful of the profound adversity...
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Millennials in the Air
As I noted when I started this blog, sometimes I will post poetry. That time has arrived, and a brief explanation may be useful. When I...