This is not the age of information. This is not the age of information. Forget the news, and the radio, and the blurred screen. This is the time of loaves and fishes People are hungry and one good word is bread for a thousand. (Loaves and Fishes, David Whyte) “My people” say I am obsessed… Continue Reading
I remember the early 2000s Indigo Girls’ song, Closer to Fine, and its lines, “Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable. And lightness has a call that’s hard to hear.” Perhaps what we hear is a matter of attention. I wonder if my focus, if our focus, gets pulled to the darkness, fed by the 24-hour news cycle; these bombings,… Continue Reading
A CEO hired me to help her work teams function more harmoniously. I have come to her company each week to listen to ten of her employees. They have dubbed our time together, “the Thursday group.” So far I have heard their lists of what works well here–in their minds at least– and what doesn’t. “So and… Continue Reading
At Hanukah we learn courage from Judah and his brave band of Maccabees, who– powered by a mysterious, miraculous force which also kept their oil burning for eight days rather than its predicted one– defeated the fierce army of Antiochus. At Christmas, Mary, Joseph and Jesus teach us love, peace and good will. And if… Continue Reading
As I write, I wear 3 intertwined bracelets that my father’s mother gave me in the 1960s. They jangle on my wrist and remind me of Memere. What a honey she was, a real sweetie. I visited Memere and Pepere often. Memere made candy. I’d break off edges of nougat and eat them, sometimes big… Continue Reading
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