The writer and playwright James Baldwin said, “The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” Frank Zappa once said, “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Let’s make those places where we ‘fit’…. and change the world.
My first degree was in Computer Science and my first job after completing the degree was for an aerospace company. After the thrill of my first real job wore off, I realized I felt trapped. It felt “small”–there was no “path” there that I was interested in pursuing. The job that looked right on…
I used to think the mistakes I’d made had ruined my life. I walked away when a major publisher wanted to publish my book Getting Messy in a different format. I lost a substantial inheritance by investing in questionable stock purchases. I’ve failed to plan ahead. And so on. But one of the most powerful…
A beautiful poem from the magnificent @parkerPalmer, one of my favorite teachers. “Your life never was the solo turn it seemed to be. It was always part of the great weave of nature and humanity, an immensity we come to know only as we follow our own small threads to the place where they merge…
At no point in her life did my mother ever ask me about my work, nor, to my knowledge, did she ever read any of my three books. But in her final hours, something changed. It was the height of the pandemic and I was teaching an online course at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Sitting next…
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