I am sitting in Starbucks (a regular occurrence for me this summer) trying to get some work done on this beautiful Thursday afternoon (mild 70s weather meant for September). Halfway across the room, a man is sitting at his laptop with a sign taped to the back of his screen that says, “Tell me your story. I’ll buy you a Read more…
Writing posts for Collective Inquiry is such an interesting experience for me. Sometimes I struggle to think of what I will write for the week, sometimes I wake up inspired and eager to write (like Monday morning), sometimes I write a post and don’t think much about it afterward, and then sometimes I write a post and it remains lingering Read more…
I recently realized something about myself that is, in all likelihood, applicable to you. It is hard to hear the things that we most need to hear about ourselves. Most of the time, it is much easier to raise our defenses than to embrace the truth. Embracing the truth requires that we are vulnerable….something that takes guts. I think that Read more…
I’d like to share with you an excerpt from a book I am reading, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. In it, she shares an experience of hearing words from a superior that she was a good, valuable, person. Her superior at the time was suffering from the pains associated with cancer and was not expected to Read more…
Put aside the ranger. Become who you were born to be.–Elrond We live in a society that has a tendency to define people by their faults. I think one reason for this is what social psychologists call the fundamental attribution error. This error gives us a bias where we tend to focus on external contexts when examining our own behavior, Read more…
