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This idea of rethinking wealth in terms of well-being is really capturing people’s imagination. I received responses from readers with...

Do humans have a natural role on this planet? I recently watched Growing Native: Great Lakes, an American Public Television special about...

From the center of Reality, the whole circumference of life is seen to be completely harmonious, for when the center is found, it becomes...

My mother loved butterflies. Her house was full of them. Not the real kind, but butterfly pins, embroidered butterflies, painted...

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,...

A friend pointed me to the Be Present organization recently. I watched their intro video and Wow! This is powerful! They’ve developed a...

Writing this series of posts on superiority has me wondering—is superiority an addiction? At the very least, we are socialized into this...

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...

White culture operates in hierarchies. There’s a constant jockeying for who is superior. As I get better at recognizing when this sense...

White culture, like everything, has its high points and low points. One thing that’s pervasive in this culture is hierarchical thinking....

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...

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...

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...

Black history is not just some polite tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. during February. Black history is our history, American history....

I recently watched “Strange Fruit,” the Billie Holiday song with all the images of the lynchings. It was horrifying—both on the side of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...