Wishing
What do you wish you did more of? Spending time with loved ones? Creating instead of consuming? Dreaming? Building?
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What do you wish you did more of? Spending time with loved ones? Creating instead of consuming? Dreaming? Building?
Read More »What is the best gift you give? What is the greatest thing you do for the world? Is it a skill you use? The love you give others? The art you create? The problems you solve?
Read More »What are you trying not to see? What do you refuse to know? What do you know that you try not to think about?
Read More »Not everyone is at a place where they can start working with a coach. You might not have the time, or the money (Though if it’s a money issue, get in touch. I don’t want anyone to need coaching and […]
Read More »The word resilient gets tossed around a lot. In international development, in climate change, even when talking about children who’ve been through trauma. It’s a vague concept, though. It’s not the same as prepared, because resilience implies you’re ready for anything, not […]
Read More »I’m not a religious person, and if I were, Christianity is not my religious tradition. Nonetheless, I look forward to the Holy Saturday blog post from Fred Clark every year. I don’t want to even excerpt it, because you need to […]
Read More »The New York times ran a really interesting article by a therapist last week. He argued that therapists (and, I would extrapolate, American culture) encourage people to turn their blame inwards. To focus on their own ability to keep up […]
Read More »I’ve been coaching and mentoring international development people for a while now. I wrote one of the first international development blogs, Blood and Milk, and it brought a lot of people to me who had really interesting questions. It was […]
Read More »Jean Mercer runs a blog called Childmyths. It is a quixotic, one-woman effort devoted to providing evidence-based data on child development. In her own words, “The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people’s decisions about childrearing– for […]
Read More »Seriously, it is. The People of Color in European Art History blog is fighting racism using its curator’s skills – the ability to discuss art history and find historical artwork for display. It is almost single-handedly disproving the popular idea that […]
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