Dear Women

My good friend Ellie, who is a great trainer and who teaches farmers how to market sent me the link to this video. Like her, I’m blown away! It’s part of an effort by Arjuna Ardagh and Gay Hendricks who have founded ConsciousMen.com. When I joined, and yes, women are welcome, their confirming email said in part [...]

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Commitment To Positive Shift On The Planet

I attended Awakening The Dreamer again – this time with a crowd of almost 200 people. Again I was struck that most of the major environmental damage has occurred during my lifetime. (I’m 68 if you’re counting.) Of course there was pollution and damage before then, and the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s is probably the place the damage [...]

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Deep Listening and Communication Failures

A few months ago I started to work at deep listening – to work at really being with the person who is speaking, hearing both what they say and maybe what’s not said. For me, a major part of listening this way is not planning how I’m going to respond while you’re talking. As so [...]

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Why We Need Unions

Today is the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. (A shirtwaist is a blouse with buttons down the front.) On this day in 1911 146 people,  mostly young immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three died when a fire took place at The Triangle Waist Company – a three floor factory on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floor [...]

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Nuclear Power Plants Are Obsolete and Optional

An earthquake that literally changes time and shifts the planet’s axis. The earthquake caused tsunami wrecks huge damage and calls out the best in people. Nuclear plants cracked by the same earthquake threatening meltdown as workers struggle to find a solution to the unthinkable. I truly don’t know how to think about these events in any rational [...]

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Two Meditation Surprises

Yesterday I was muttering to a close friend that I was struggling to find a regular 15 minutes a day to spend reading on what might be called professional development. “Morning’s are out, that’s my prime writing time,” I moaned. “Afternoons seem to be taken up with more writing, marketing, and the stuff of life… [...]

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Our Stories Are Important Until They Are Not

In the, for want of a better term, human potential movement, a lot of energy is spent helping people find their stories. Twelve Steppers do it through their 4th step when they take a deep look at what hasn’t worked for them. Therapists earn money helping people uncover the damage they received growing up. Hypnotists [...]

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Compassion When It Might Be Easier To Hate

Thich Nhat Hanh’s best known book is probably Being Peace. It’s profound. Here’s what struck me most recently. He’s talking about how everyone suffers – blacks and whites, Palestinians and Israelis, Indians and Pakistanis, etc. etc. etc. and says this: There must be people who can get in touch with both sides, understanding the suffering of each and telling [...]

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Small Changes

I’ve been thinking about racism recently, for a couple of reasons. The first is I’ve moved to a dead end street and most of the folks here speak Spanish – or so I thought. I was embarrassed the other day to find one of my neighbors is throughly bi-lingual and so are her kids. I’d [...]

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Renew Hope, Change The Dream

I don’t know about you, but when I really look at the state of our planet I get discouraged – at least I did until hope and the right kind of dreaming were restored to me yesterday. Sort of against my “better intellectual judgement,” I attended an Awakening The Dreamer Symposium yesterday. I’m grateful I listened [...]

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