I love reading stories about time travel – backwards and forwards in time. I wondered what it would be like going back in time, when the pleasures were simpler, the days were less harried and hurried, when people made most of their own food, had to wait longer than overnight shipping for things that they […]
What would a conversation be like in a world where color thinking is already a thing? I love to imagine them. I like to think that they would be like the ones we used to have in the dining hall in grad school – where we would stay after breakfast, drinking coffee and talking until […]
My Book, The Rainbow Onion, is now available for pre-order on Amazon (here). It’s about the Transformative Power of Color Thinking. This is the third in a series of blog posts that dive into what color thinking actually means, using excerpts from the book. This comes from Chapter 3, Put Them Together, Color Thinking. There’s […]
My Book, The Rainbow Onion, is available for pre-order in eBook and the paperback is coming soon. It’s about the Transformative Power of Color Thinking. This is the second in a series of blog posts that dive into what color thinking actually means, using excerpts from the book. This comes from Chapter 2, Thinking. Chapter […]
Thought work or action? There are a lot of people on social media these days saying that we need to do our own inner work, and a lot of people saying we need to take action. So which one is better? Which one do we do first? Which is most important? That’s something I’ve struggled […]
In these crazy, unprecedented times we need evidence of hope. I’ve said before that hope is not where we stop, where we stall and remain waiting, because we humans are creatures of action. But hope is certainly a place to begin. Right now, we need to begin actively looking for evidence of hope. Let’s go […]
Simple is not the same thing as easy. Sometimes doing the simple thing is really hard. My favorite example comes from my music experience. I sing in a chamber ensemble. Lots of times we pick hard music, and as you would expect, we have to work hard to learn the notes, follow the dynamics, add […]
Often these days it seems that we are surrounded by bad news. Astounding, audacious and horrible news. People behaving very badly. Our natural responses are anger, despair, frustration and a whole plethora of other emotions that feel wretched. We can come to believe that the world is in a terrible place and there is nothing […]
I received multiple reminders of this marvelous, wonderful and totally peacemaking fact this week. It felt so important that I wanted to pass it on to you. You are inherently good. You were born that way. Nothing happened to change that fact. Nothing you have done changes the fact that you are inherently good. Yes, […]
