coaching for clarity and courage
We can all tell a good story, but the truth is most of the time being brave is optional. We can live a perfectly happy and acceptable life by doing the easiest thing, not the best thing. Maybe not a […]
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Development people write a lot about failure. We have to take risks, and accept failure. You’re not innovating enough if you never fail. You have to fail to find the path to success. It’s all easy to say, but the […]
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Nick McDonald offers a selection of links on personal security. I actually bought this book (Amazon link there, see side hustles) based on his recommendation. Once I’ve read it, I’ll do a review. On the development research front, there’s a depressing new […]
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Feyisa Lilesa, an Ethiopian athlete who risked his life to draw attention to Ethiopia’s Oromo rights movement. More on Oromo rights here. Peter Norman, the Australian athlete who sacrificed his athletic career to support the American civil rights movement. HT/Ethan […]
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This is pretty amazing. Said Ahmed, a New Zealand resident of Egyptian descent, runs a kebab shop in Christchurch. Last Saturday, he was targeted by as armed robber with a gun and a bag. Presumably, he wanted Ahmed to hand […]
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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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Everyone should read this devastating article on the people struggling to provide medical care in Syria. Between the regime, the rebels, the Russians, the Iranians, ISIS and the Kurds, there aren’t a lot of clean hands in the country. The […]
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Samantha Field has this to say about the Orlando attack: Believing that I don’t have the right to exist exactly as I am is hatred. Fighting against my civil rights is hatred… Referring to my existence as an abomination— which […]
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Anders Kompass ended a thirty-year career with the UN because he saw children being abused and would not let it stand. Kompass was a senior UN official – field operations director at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. […]
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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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If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]