Time to Think
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Lately I've been thinking about what helps us have a strong voice and a clear perspective about as Oprah says, "what we know for sure". Solitude helps. Time to think. Conversations with wise friends help.
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Untitled or Unfinished?
/Just because it isn't finished
Doesn't mean it can't be useful.
I've wrapped the scarf I'm knitting
around my neck.
It keeps me comfy
As I continue knitting
On the yet unfinished end.
It makes me wonder
If it's true of other things
As well.
Judy Brown
Dorset, UK
September 6, 2014
Flourishing Enterprise
/Flourishing Enterprise was written with eight colleagues who bring wildly different backgrounds and perspectives--all of whom intend to contribute to the possibility that the human species and all other species might flourish together on the earth, forever. Published by Stanford University Press, and under the auspice of the business school at Case Western Reserve, it is the result of three years of arduous and challenging dialogue and exploration.
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/Somewhere inside of me
unknown to me
there is a weaver
hard at work
weaving a cloth of gold,
spinning the strands of
sunlight, strands of dark,
holding my passion
in the very hand that holds
my fear.
The cloth is craft,
the process of mystery,
the threads are life.
-From The Sea Accepts All Rivers
The Antique Lilac
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This year, after a miserably long and cold Michigan winter, the natural world up North is full of blooming wonders. And one of the most remarkable examples of the exuberance of this spring is the antique lilac that lay on the ground for years behind the forsythia out by the road, and which we hoisted up a couple of years back with a clothes-line tied off on a cedar stump. In past years, if there were a bloom or two we were impressed. But this year, the lilac, here to prove that age has nothing to do with vitality and creativity, has done itself proud. Virginia Woolf said "I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun." I guess we helped the lilac do that: we altered the lilac's aspect to the sun. Interesting to ask ourselves how we do that for each other.
Read MoreHolidays
/January 2, 2012
Dear One and All,
A few days back, my friend Mary Parish and I spent some quiet time together musing about what we might be sensing for ourselves, and for each other, in the year ahead. Not New Year’s resolutions, so much as a dissolving of the constraints of old ways of thinking, old expectations, old demands we place on ourselves.
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