crisis
Shift Happens, So Always Have Spare Change
“Got any spare change?” Surely someone has approached you in your lifetime who’s posed this question to you, right? Regardless of how you responded, there’s something rather profound in the question. Do you have any spare change? In other words, are you allowing space and flexibility in your life for change? I think it’d be…
Read MoreWe Are (Probably) ALL Addicts
My team warned me NOT to write this. In fact, they threatened to quit if I did. See ya, guys; there’s the door. I’m writing it anyways! (They’re full of idle threats, and I know they’re just watching out for me!) We are (probably) ALL addicts. So there, I said it (actually wrote it, but…
Read MoreU.S.A.: Ununited States of Addiction
Yes, “ununited.” Doesn’t even show up as a real word in my spell check. But that’s not the point. The point is that we are drowning in a typhoon of addiction. The saddest part is that we don’t even know it. When I write “we” I mean us as a people, a culture and a…
Read MoreChronic and Terminal Humanness
Ever notice how easy it is to do what you don’t want to do, and know you probably shouldn’t do and, likewise, not do what you want to do and what you actually know is best for you? Well, maybe not YOU specifically, but people in general. But then again, maybe I am describing you.…
Read MoreKen Donaldson on Putting Out Fires, Crisis and Integrity
I had a fire to put out last Thursday. A REAL fire. Evidently some trees rubbed my power line to the point of creating an open line and all the lights started to flash in my house, the backup battery systems started to beep and finally there was a puff of smoke followed by sparks…
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