My dog tried to break me last Tuesday

Right now, at this very moment, which is 6:54 am on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, our dog is laying in the hallway in front of my office, her bushy tail spilling through the doorway. She has been doing some combination of barking, whining and huffing for going on an hour...

When 5 Seconds Leads to Life Change

  We are a reactive species – we’ve talked about this before, and we’ll talk about it lots more to come because moving from reactivity to responsiveness is one of the great challenges and opportunities of our personal development. First off, what does that even...

14 Actions of Everyday Activism

  In November of 2016, I attended the Women’s March in my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, with a friend and our mothers. It was the first time my friend’s mother had participated in anything she considered to be activism. Women across the country...

Gritty, Determined, Stubborn Optimism

  On Saturday night, Theresa and I hunkered down for the two hours and 40 minutes of theatrical goodness that is Hamilton. Like many people, I’ve had my kick of listening to the soundtrack on a loop and yet though every bit of dialogue in the production is...

Living The Resistance as The Embracing

In a notebook of ideas that stays open on my desk, I wrote sometime in the last few weeks, “What if the movement changed its language from “resistance” to “expansiveness” or “embracing?” Who knows what I was thinking when I wrote it down but I spend a good bit of time...

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