I love this quote for its thought-provoking impact.  It is not up to others, or outside circumstances, to protect us and make us feel...

Happy New Year!  May 2024 be filled with opportunities to be wrong and learn from it! In the closing months and weeks of 2023, my...

Luck /lʌk/ (noun): Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions. Ever since I first entered the...

In the last year, I’ve had the great privilege of co-facilitating a one-day DEI workshop.  I have been struck by how often people have...

Whole-hearted participation is such a beautiful way of describing a way to live a life that is committed to the cultivation of courage:...

This is a daily practice of mine: to pay deep attention to the wondrous, awe-provoking, rich tapestry of synchronicity and synergy that...

I didn’t write a newsletter in October, a decision not taken lightly. From where I now sit, I can see that knotty choice was an early...

Isn’t this delicious? It reminds me of the invitation of the Thinking Environment’s Component of Information. When we give ourselves and...

Cynicism! Sometimes it can feel like an insidious cloak, enfolding me from all sides – sibling to hopelessness, and despair. I rarely...

Paradoxically this “deep place” is both within us, and we are within it. We do not need to make it happen, it is already, always there. ...

I hope Black Elk is right. And if he is, may we all find the little root of the sacred tree that still lives in each of our lives, and...

James Baldwin knew a thing or two about really living the life you have, having to make choices to be himself and express himself as a...

Safety, honesty and welcome – the servants of encouragement! Isn’t that a beautiful idea? Many of us who are engaged in creating...

What a master Rumi was at spotting the camouflaged notion, so easily overlooked. Stop for a moment, upon reading this, and let yourself...

I have been on a deep dive in the exploration of loss and grief in the last while, and have been encountering the notion that we are...

If we really choose to, we could all imagine what the honest exploration of feelings would have involved for someone like Audre Lorde, a...

This made me wonder about “prayers”. What is my equivalent? How might I incorporate the practice of whatever I could think of as...

I am so thought-provoked by this idea: that it is strength to laugh, and be light. Recently, I have been exercised by the need to...

I am so grateful for getting older. Getting older is also given to us by grace, I believe. It means that there have been, at least in...

Isn’t this a lovely idea? I like the idea of heading out into my day wondering what may never be seen unless I make it visible and...