Friends, This week is just another week. Today is just another day. This hour has 60 minutes like every other. And this instant is all you ever have – a largely unending succession to be sure – but only just this instant to be lived. And yet we have the capacity to draw back from … Continued
Friends, Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote a fascinating piece on President Obama’s wide-reaching use of deadlines – on Gitmo, health care, Iran, Russian arms deals, and a wide array of other issues – in yesterday’s New York Times. She suggests the risks can be high when deadlines pass without action or action is forced prematurely, and … Continued
Dee Lindeman of Center Line, Michigan is my Everyday Leader of the Year for 2009. She was so upset about cuts to education that she said she was going to the Capitol in Lansing and she was going to talk to the legislature and the governor. In fact, she said, if they didn’t fix the … Continued
Friends, Irish poet and marine zoologist David Whyte is my favorite writer about work. He glistens like the leaves of the aspen tree that sparkle in a wind, fed by roots that can be thousands of year old. He gets deep. On my radio show on Saturday he spoke with the magic of Irish-poet, defending … Continued
At this point next year, things will be really different. Stuff will happen, as sure as the seasons will change. There is no way you can predict just where you’ll be, what successes you will have had, what sources of joy, and what defeats and frustrations. But if there is one thing we know about … Continued