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What’s Wrong With You?
Short answer: nothing. There’s a quiet lie that does more damage than the loud ones because it doesn’t shout. It just sits down next to you at the end of a long day and says: everyone else has this figured out. What’s wrong with you? I saw it on display the other day in our…
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How can I help? (part 1)
Finding Flow in turbulent times Jan 20, 2017 The world’s a mess. Democracy is in peril. The ice caps are melting. And the inmates have taken over the asylum. Suddenly, more and more people are waking up to alarm bells and wondering what can I do; how can I help? But that’s not an easy…
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Is that the best you can do?
The Show up or Shut up Manifesto Aug 22, 2024 It’s hard not to be cynical these days. The world is unraveling in front of our eyes yet the vast majority of folks carry on as usual. We face a rise of authoritarian populism (aka fascism), a return to diplomacy by brute force (complete with…
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A waking dream
On cutting free what was never yours to carry I had a sort of waking dream today. It was a most amazing experience. I had been reading the news and, as is pretty common these days, felt a panic attack coming on. I used a technique I’ve learned to focus on the physical sensations in the…
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Lifeboats — the Backstory
I have made it my personal mission to launch a Fleet of 100 Lifeboats in response to the multiple global crises we now face. Recently, a friend asked where this idea came from. As I was talking through a possible response with one of my collaborators, we realized it’s a challenging story to tell because it involves…
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So be it resolved…
From the edge of 2017 Rarely has a year been as hated as 2016. The poor thing; so unfairly accused. After all, all 2016 did was provide 365 days. It was up to us to fill them. Each day, we had a choice: to be resolved, to live our convictions or to let it slide.…
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Live the experiment
Daily Reflection 2025-05-21 I want to coin a new term: larva brain. We talk about our reptile brains; this is like that but different. The larva brain is a sort of layer over top of the organic brain. These larva are parasitic, feeding off the electricity of a brain that’s freaking out. It’s the larva…
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The goal isn’t the goal
Daily Reflections 2025-05-19 It’s a rainy morning. We had a gorgeous day yesterday and I spent most of it in the garden preparing beds for planting so I’m a bit stiff and sore this morning, but in a good way. And I have a few thought rattling around. I read a great piece by Jennifer…
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Permission to be Seen
On barbs, bravery and belonging My dad turned 93 last week. He’s been sober for about sixty of those years, with a gap in the middle that started about the time I came along. The drinking hadn’t always been a problem. It came on in his thirties, the way these things sometimes do. Pressures started…
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The Council of Stones
A story about trusting the counsel of rocks and other things older and wiser than you. Some evenings, the world feels too loud for language. Emails multiply like rats, the news mutates into performance art, and even well-meaning people suddenly require more emotional bandwidth than the average small-town power grid can provide. On those nights,…
