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Feb 15, 20223 min read
Reflections on Well-being as Wealth
This idea of rethinking wealth in terms of well-being is really capturing people’s imagination. I received responses from readers with...
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Dec 3, 20213 min read
What, really, is our role?
Do humans have a natural role on this planet? I recently watched Growing Native: Great Lakes, an American Public Television special about...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
At the Center of All Things
From the center of Reality, the whole circumference of life is seen to be completely harmonious, for when the center is found, it becomes...
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Nov 19, 20212 min read
Lastness and Firstness
My mother loved butterflies. Her house was full of them. Not the real kind, but butterfly pins, embroidered butterflies, painted...
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Sep 2, 20213 min read
Unlock Creativity with a Digital Whiteboard
What do you do when you’re grappling with a bunch of random ideas all at once? So many of our digital tools are linear: word processors,...
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Jul 8, 20212 min read
Know Thyself
A friend pointed me to the Be Present organization recently. I watched their intro video and Wow! This is powerful! They’ve developed a...
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Apr 28, 20212 min read
Recovering from Superiority, Part 3 – Become a Channel
Writing this series of posts on superiority has me wondering—is superiority an addiction? At the very least, we are socialized into this...
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Apr 28, 20212 min read
Recovering from Superiority, Part 2 – Everyone is Vital
As I work on social issues, it’s so easy for me to see people as needing my help, to see myself as superior—I’m making these efforts for...
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Apr 28, 20213 min read
Recovering from Superiority, Part 1 – Focus on Learning
White culture operates in hierarchies. There’s a constant jockeying for who is superior. As I get better at recognizing when this sense...
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Apr 28, 20212 min read
How to Overcome the Effects of a Hierarchical Culture
White culture, like everything, has its high points and low points. One thing that’s pervasive in this culture is hierarchical thinking....
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Mar 12, 20215 min read
Lessons from Uganda
I recently talked with Aaron Enyetu, who arrived here from Uganda just a few months ago. Aaron has worked both as a volunteer in the...
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Mar 5, 20212 min read
Just Take a Breath
How do we develop a learning mindset? It’s not possible to know everything, so obviously we’re going to have to learn as we go. But how...
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Feb 26, 20211 min read
Escaping the Tiny Prison
What happens when we live a lie for generations? What does it do to us when we pretend we are better than others? What happens to us when...
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Feb 26, 20212 min read
This is America
Black history is not just some polite tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. during February. Black history is our history, American history....
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Feb 26, 20212 min read
We Are One
I recently watched “Strange Fruit,” the Billie Holiday song with all the images of the lynchings. It was horrifying—both on the side of...
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Feb 19, 20212 min read
Clearing out what doesn’t work
Becoming conscious is not easy. It’s about clearing my inner landscape of old beliefs—and that takes work. It’s like clearing debris from...
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Feb 12, 20212 min read
There’s always another dawn
It’s hard work, becoming conscious. And what makes it doubly hard is this: I wake up and look around. My eyes are open and it’s a...
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Feb 4, 20211 min read
The Conversation is Getting Air Time
We’ve been catching up on old episodes of The Unicorn and the one we watched last night profoundly impressed me. This was episode 3...
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Jan 28, 20213 min read
How difficulties can build community
As we learn to embrace diversity at all levels of society, it helps to have examples of what inclusion looks like. I recently talked to...
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Jan 20, 20213 min read
Lessons of Winter
How do we weather society’s storms? Winter is tough. There is no pretense when the cold weather hits. There can’t be. When the leaves are...
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