Moving
During the last few weeks, I have been reflecting on a range of topics I wanted to write about for this blog. Slowly, I realized that my...
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OWLcourage
a blog invested in hope and creative possibility
Phyllis Kritek
- Mar 19
- 4 min
Advantage
The concept of “advantage” is one of the trickiest of ideas, and can, I believe, often reveal to us our intellectual laziness. The...
Phyllis Kritek
- Mar 12
- 5 min
Decline/Adapt
The least troublesome definition of “decline” I could locate reads as follows: “become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease (usually of...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 28
- 4 min
Role Re-Visioning
We humans organize our individual and communal biographies using an “invented” device called “roles”. In the US, all cultures and...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Race : White
My decision to spend my late adolescent and early adult years in a convent had a long list of consequences, some more troublesome than...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 14
- 5 min
Elderhood
An early pause for exploration in my journey toward Wisdom Work was catalyzed by my curiosity about the words we use in our society to...
Phyllis Kritek
- Feb 5
- 5 min
Wisdom Work....Continuing the Search
My conceptualization of “Wisdom Work” did not, like Athena (the Goddess of Wisdom) spring fully armored out of Zeus’s head. I had to work...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 28
- 6 min
Whoops!
I was busy relegating 2022 to the dustbin of history with a clear excess of pleasure. My focus was on the emergence of 2023. Enough with...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 20
- 5 min
Tested Positive
Wow! I actually tested positive! I stared at the pink stripe and the blue stripe, solid and obvious. I had Covid-19. I could sense...
Phyllis Kritek
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Wisdom Work 1.0
OWLcourage as an idea had been marinating for over five years, before culminating in my first posting on January 13, 2022. My original...
Phyllis Kritek
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
R.I.P. 2022
I have yet to find anyone anywhere lamenting the passing of the year 2022. Even the people working to pretend we are going to have...
Phyllis Kritek
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
Holiday Reflections
I had an OWLcourage post prepared and shelved it for now. It seemed wise to take a moment to honor this time of year. Holidays of...
Phyllis Kritek
- Dec 7, 2022
- 4 min
Sparkle Report
I am committed to the attentive search for Sparkles, wherever and however I can find them. I also think we need to report the Sparkles we...
Phyllis Kritek
- Nov 28, 2022
- 6 min
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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Nov 22, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Nov 15, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Nov 6, 2022
- 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,...
Phyllis Kritek
- Nov 1, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Oct 20, 2022
- 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...
Phyllis Kritek
- Oct 17, 2022
- 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...
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