Most games, you can win. They have an agreed upon end point. There’s a moment when everyone counts up their winnings, and we know with certainty how it all turned out. If we’re still in the mood to play, we can start a new game altogether. Some have said that life itself is a game. But …
Gratitude has always seemed like a scam to me. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always had a heightened awareness of what’s wrong in the world. In the 3rd grade on the school bus, I was reading Newsweek, learning about all of the great challenges facing us. All of the wrongs that needed righted. …
We live in an age where we expect everything to come quickly. Cities built overnight. Islands reclaimed from the sea. New technologies transforming our lives. The latest and greatest. That’s how human systems work. In our ingenuity, we build our towers of Babel at lightning speed, and they fall just as quickly. Remember the VHS …
I don’t know about you, but I get overwhelmed. There’s so much I want to see and do. I want to make an impact with my life, and my imagination wanders far beyond the limits of my own capacity to make change. My dreams are way bigger than my ability to make them reality. Despite my …
We live in a fast food culture. We want it easy. We want it hot. We want it now. Whether you’re working for a non-profit or a big corporation, the mantra is likely the same: What have you produced this week, this month, this quarter? This culture demands instant results that can be measured in simple charts and graphs. Show …
Christmas is a big mess of tangled emotions, and the older I get the more I despair of ever sorting them out. Am I supposed to feel nostalgia or hope, gratitude or angst? Is Christmas a time for cheering or weeping? I really can’t tell. Maybe the answer to all these questions is yes. The …
Are you ready to go deeper? We live in a world that is running on sensory overload. It seems like there’s always something else to do, another task to accomplish or spectacle to be witnessed. But what would it be like to just stop and breathe? What would we find there, in the silence? In …
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