The Power of Pause

I’m writing this on Monday, October 9, 2023, in shock about what has been unfolding in the Middle East over the weekend. This seems the moment to frantically DO something. We opted for a different path: we used the title of the blog post as a repeating writing...

The World Café – Percolating Possibilities

Eleanor Roosevelt observed: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” In my experience, the most interesting people are interested in ideas. The World Café is full of such people. Cafés have always been associated with...

Paradise Unpaved

FireHawk Hulin ‘Stumbled" me a link to this great visual story by illustrator/author Franke James. Franke’s story of battling the powers that be to create a little beauty and health in her front yard is the perfect antidote to Joni Mitchell’s...