2020 – Sunday Blessings – The Great Pivot

  “The idea that we are independent of nature is a tremendous conceit, and true because we are, relatively speaking, divorced from nature by that very attitude. The constructs of human beings are really no more unnatural than bees' nests, and birds' nests, and constructs of animal and insect beings. They're extensions of ourselves.”  ~Alan …

2020 – Sunday Blessings – Cape(s) Optional

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s …

2020 – And then there was an Earthquake…….

“Justice is not just. Unless you have money, unless you have privilege, it doesn’t work for everybody.”  ~Jaime Harrison (S.C. Democratic Senate Candidate)  The sky is not falling – but – it is changing.  Whether you see madness and mayhem – or – goodness and kindness – out there – it’s always been ‘that way.’  …

2020 – Step 18: Time to Turn the Page

"Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread in it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect."  ~Chief Seattle 1854 Suspending belief drives innovation.  Balance and Harmony.  Disruption starts with a question.  "Is there a better way - or …

Step 303: Unfinished Business

"Phantasm - (noun) - a product of fantasy: delusive appearance; illusion; ghost or spector; a figment of the imagination; a figment of the imagination.  A mental representation of a real object." Look beneath the surface - what's "brewing?"  Human loves satisfying - yet unprovable explanations for human behavior.  We'll call it a "rationalization."  Human rationalizes …