This week and last, I have been greatly inspired by The Feedback Fallacy, an article published this Spring in the Harvard Business Review and shared with me by a friend who does lots of coaching. Coaching and mentoring don’t seem exactly the same to me, but I love learning about how adults learn and thinking […]
meditation
Born in August
Let me just start out by saying I was not born in August. I was however, born again yesterday. Yesterday I finally fell into Summer. I walked slowly down the drive, which is really more like a country dirt road since it goes for a good quarter mile, tracking my perceptions. Time slowed down. Time […]
Angels and Mermaids
Last November while I was on the West Coast, I walked to the beach one morning. It was a Fall morning of exquisite beauty. So pink the light, so glowing the sand, so utterly awesome. Still, it wasn’t only beauty that began to envelope me, it was a kind of sadness that I could nearly […]
Drinking in the Dark
And drinking in the dark. For the last few days I’ve been living without electric lights, just a few candles strategically placed, but otherwise, no lights. Letting the light limit me has changed how I feel about my resources, brought me home to myself in a way I had not imagined. In many years, I […]
Willing and Unwilling: An Early Morning Meditation on Zhi
I often ask myself: What am I willing to do? What am I willing to take responsibility for? These seem straightforward enough questions in some ways, but as I grow older, I am more and more aware that I cannot know what life will bring and I am more and more wary of what I […]
The Love Strategy
I am writing this morning from a lounger on the porch overlooking the lake. The view is spectacularly relaxing and beautiful. It has been a long time coming, this view. I got here on Monday and it has done nothing but rain since then. Cold rain. I have trudged out in it every day, one […]
