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…
After I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, I tried very hard to do what I was ‘supposed’ to do… get a tenure-track position at some respectable university. But I couldn’t do it. Instead, I moved to the wilderness of northwest Montana and lived in a teepee for a few years. Here’s what…
I spent years trying to fit into traditional boxes, yet never fitting in… because an inner vision will never fit into a box. I spent more years not trusting my path and feeling that I wasn’t the right person for what I felt called to do. I didn’t want to make waves, speak out, or…
I see so many people spend tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of dollars on training, certifications, and degrees because they’re afraid to embrace their true gifts. They think that they just need the proper credential and then they can finally do the work that’s been calling them. They feel that what they DO…
Back in the early 2000s, before social media was an industry, I knew a woman named Carol who maintained a huge social network. And much like today’s social media, it involved constantly relaying her sexy vacations and all the fun she was having in her life. I was in a group with Carol and one…
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