OWLcourage
a blog invested in hope and creative possibility

I believe that human conflict can be an opportunity for personal transformation and communal enrichment. I do know that this is a bridge too far for many people; I persist. For over 35 years, I have worked in a variety of roles and with a variety of individuals and groups to share this belief and provide some intellectual and emotional tools to make discovery possible. The most challenging topic I tackled with them has always been “Shadow Projection”. I do not think I was tau

I recently had the pleasure of learning yet again from one of my favorite teachers, seventeen-year-old Grady, my oldest grandson. Grady has an intuitive and nuanced sense of humor, with refined timing and tempo. We were at his mother, my daughter’s home, nearing dinner time, standing around in the kitchen, chatting. Quietly, Grady, in a serious (and condescending voice) began “mansplaining” the term “mansplaining” to his younger sister, then turned and included me in his su

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 Albert Einstein. While there were and are a variety of responses to the equation, mine was focused on energy. For me, it seemed Einstein had theoretically documented a relationship between two valued conceptual maps: chemistry and physics. These two maps, which enchanted me as a young scholar, had often been largely separate universes of thoug

I am old enough to remember a time when corporate America acknowledged compelling motives other than profit. Today, it has seemed to me, profit first and always drives decisions, even when these appear to be carefully explained with crafted rationalizations to avoid the implication that profit rules. An easy one is climate: “Yes, what we are doing harms the planet, but we must do it to ensure profits!” There is an unstated message embedded: “We are invaluable, priceless co

Nine months ago, I posted my first blog on OWLcourage. Any woman who has experienced a pregnancy develops an often unexamined awareness of “nine months”. Gestation is really just one distinct human having an extraordinary experience that involves a potential second distinct human; birth creates a whole new journey for this second distinct emergent human. Mother and child may share the journey, but the distinctness is sharp and clear in the days after the birth of a child. T