coaching for clarity and courage
I’ve had a lot of internships. Well, five, to be exact. Three were okay, one was a failure, and one succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. I have also supervised my share of eager young interns. Someday, in another post, I’ll […]
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If revelation can flow at any time, what can we do to cultivate receptivity, to attune our psycho-spiritual antennas to that broadcast? The best tool I know for cultivating receptiveness to revelation is opening myself to yearning. http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2016/06/yearning-and-revelation.html#more
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When do we stop choosing among bad options and start attempting to create new options?
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On Wednesday I was wondering what we’ll feel stupid about in 50 years. Donald Trump, and Brexit, and our utter failure in climate change. I’ll add antibacterial resistance to that last, and the achingly slow transition to renewable energy. How […]
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, […]
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So it’s time to stop being good little minions and tear down the damn machine. We have to stop being helpful cogs and start being the grit that grinds the gears. To push this metaphor to the limit, we need to […]
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You can’t fight every fight. That is not how fighting works. Not even if you actually are right, every time. (Spoiler: you’re not. You are human and humans make mistakes. I myself once thought the hippo roller was a useful […]
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Because the whole idea is stupid. Of course you can’t have it all. When did having “all” become a concept to aspire to? You don’t get to have an intense, time-consuming career and tons of time with your kids. Well, […]
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The start of my very first overseas trip as an aid worker, in 2007. I’d done plenty of development work at that point, but this was my first foray into humanitarian response. This is an excerpt from my journal at […]