May 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
My rightness erases you and your rightness I like being right. I was the kid who raised their hand to answer questions in the classroom because I knew the answer. I consider ‘being right’ and my need and like to ‘be right.’ Behind it is something broken. The need to...
April 22, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Everything lives in a context Context means the container that holds the text. Context is like a series of concentric circles within concentric circles, like a bull’s eye used in archery. The immediate context is held in a context that creates the conditions for that...
April 21, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Rewilding language Our words create our world. In the beginning, says one famous book, was the word. Humans desire safety, dignity, and relevance. Yet we also need fields of creativity, spaces to be wild without doing harm to others. The language of suppression is a...
April 19, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Reading the signs As the magician moves her hands, you miss the trick. This is the plan. Your senses are seduced by the magical and miss the important. In the news feed today, many magicians are moving their hands, seducing people into reading the glamour and missing...
April 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The synergy of thinking and feeling I am a person of high intellect. This is not a boast. It is. I read. I think. I consider. I learn from others. I was born this way, with books all around me from very early in my life. For years, well-meaning people have told me...
April 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How do you deal with narcissists I was asked the question during the Dare to Care workshop, class #1, how do you deal with narcissists? Ideally, if you have a choice, you deal with narcissists by removing them from your life. In other words, you do not engage with...
