“If you’re finding your creativity and productivity are suffering as a result of your routine being flipped on its head, that’s ok! Let me repeat: that’s ok…”
"We have what the military call a VUCA environment: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. There are many unknowns and many feelings, and this is when people need their leaders to step up, connect, support, and soothe..."
“It is when the snow and ice are upon them that we see the strength of the Cypress and Pines.” -Chinese proverb
"...And though you may not be able to touch across the empty square, Sing."
“How do we connect and grow as a community when we need to increase our social distance?”
"To stay grounded and calm, I am adding on to my practices and using this time to reconnect..."
“I’m interested in using the past in order to break open into the present day… It’s something that you can see if you’re interested in looking that way.”
“...There are queen bees (politicians), drones (profiteers, the media), and worker bees (canvassers, poll counters, Congressional staff). And as the ideological extremes drift further apart, we are, increasingly, like different species trying (or not trying) to co-exist…”
"I am choosing to end the silence by sharing three dramatic examples from my own life that show what racial privilege looks like from the perspective of someone who is neither white nor privileged by the circumstance of ‘race.’"
“When we feel connected to the world around us, we experience more joy and belonging, less depression and less anxiety, all of which increase our thinking, creativity, well-being and generosity…”
