I can be from time to time a cultural explorer. I study, learn as much as I can about different cultures – especially their perspectives and beliefs that diverge from the mainstream rivers of junk that pass by me every day. One outcome from these studies is that I can pick and choose what I…
Sometimes an article pops up on my reading list, and I am not sure what to do with it … how to think through it, how to make sense of it and how to not follow the click-bait. This article from The Dispatch had all the signs of a click bait post – a title:…
Awhile back, I posted on corporate life artifacts left in my behavior and thinking that are NOT that useful outside of corporate circles. There were two fundamental aspects, a) urgency to complete, i.e., the result, and b) the transactional nature of all interactions and relationships. While studying more astute thinkers and mystics (Braiding Sweet Grass…
Sometimes a news piece just makes sense and is motivating. It’s not really the news itself that is inspiring (though in this case it really is), but what the news triggers. A new way of looking at same old problems and solutions – my problems! Mongabay published a great article this week on Elephant /…
After several conversations with some of the smartest, kindest people I know, a realization struck me that needed to get worked through. In different mystical traditions and even in striving for non-mystical eudaemonia, we find these two metaphors often: veil and door. Usually a barrier or obstacle that needs to be removed or passed thru….
Many moons ago in a galaxy far, far away …. I taught at a New England Environmental / Outdoor school. Students between grades 4 and 8 would come on Monday and leave on Friday – all the while sleeping in church camp dormitories and eating in the large mess hall, and learning about ecology during…
