Flourishing

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Flourishing

These past few days I've been at Case Western Reserve University for a huge gathering focused on human and environmental flourishing. It was a celebrational time as the focus was our new book Flourishing Enterprise; the new spirit of business.

The remarkable synchronicity of chance meetings and the joy of seeing old friends was huge for me.

I met wonderful people through my work with poetry and sat with strangers only to find we had heart connections and good friends in common.

Toward the end of the time there I was thanking Bruce Cryer, former CEO of HeartMath, for wonderful comments about the power of the arts as a force for health. He handed me his card and there was the name of his latest venture: What makes your heart sing?

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Fire circles, stories and talking sticks.

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Fire circles, stories and talking sticks.

This last week a group of twenty-five of us met for the third and final week together in our leadership program.  As has been our tradition, we began and ended our gathering with a check-in/check-out process, what we have begun to call a "fire circle".  Round-robin, one at a time, we listen to each others musings, and reflections on what is most on our hearts and minds. 

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Baggage

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Baggage

I’ve made a commitment to travel lighter these days.  Take with me only what I will really use.  Still my suitcase is often heavier than it needs to be. Which means on most trips, I have to check a bag.  Which is what put me at baggage claim at the Sacramento Airport last month.  Gawking at a remarkable piece of public art:  An enormous pillar of baggage.

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