Rosa Say has said it better than anybody this week regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden. In a beautiful, moving post titled, “Hello? These are your values speaking,” she recommends a process of reflection to answer the internal questions we might have about our own private reactions to the event. photo by www.triplem.com.au...
When and where do leaders most add value? Now that’s a simple question with absolutely no well-defined answers. On one level it seems to have something to do with articulating the felt needs of some group of people and fostering conjoint action toward something the group wants: wealth, security, social justice, political influence, what...
In a vivid dream I was lost in a foreign city. I didn’t speak the language and, although I had my phone with me, I didn’t know who to call. There seemed to be some sort of civil war going on and for a few minutes I was trapped in a building with gunfire...
At the moment I am staying overnight at the Whidbey Institute here in Washington State, a retreat facility hidden away in the woods an hour or so from Seattle. It is late dusk, and a light spring rain is falling over the darkening forest that surrounds the place. Deer, like shadows, walk the lawns...
