Archive for Month: July 2024

“Nothing is true and everything is possible.”  Hannah Arendt   In my local community, I see signs like “No woke zone” and “God’s got this.”   To me, those two posters translate into “Around here, we don’t welcome new ideas and we externalize all responsibility for change.”  You get the idea—the conditions for effective systems change in my town are not exactly conducive for bold thinking and doing things differently.  In a broader context, systems change Read More

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”  Alan Watts “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”  Brene Brown “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”  Rose Kennedy “If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the Read More

Released almost 50 years ago, in the aftermath of the American War in Vietnam, this song by Kansas still captures our experience today.    Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry no more   Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse of this illusion I was soaring ever higher But I flew too high Though Read More

“A dictator may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.” Thomas Paine, 1776 “If we are to have another contest of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and Read More