Autumnal Equinox: “WHAT IF?” Bell Curves
I’ve played “WHAT IF?” with a bell curve as a metaphor for many years because it offers a framework that helps [...]
Safety Redux: Helping Each Other Be Safer
Photo by Ben Hershey, Unsplash Thank you to all who responded (and continue to respond) to the blog, Ancestor Message: The False [...]
Lughnasadah: A Place of Grace, A Margin of Mercy
Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is an official Irish holiday (Lúnasa) and Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically, it was widely observed [...]
July 4th, Machievelli, and the Pursuit of Happiness
July 4th every year is a celebration of the Declaration of Independence from England by representatives of the colonies that became the United States. [...]
Summer Solstice: All the Ways of This World
“All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.” —Venerable Bede [...]
Leadership Alternatives to Authoritarian: Hierarchy, Distributed and Mycelium
What kind of leader am I? Do I naturally want to lead people in a vertical chain of hierarchy? Or do I prefer to [...]
May Day
Photo Credit: Lazar Gugleta, Unsplash I love May Day, the first day of the merry month of May. As a child we [...]
Ancestor Message: The False Goal of Safety
Definition of Safe: Protected from or not exposed to danger or risk; not likely to be harmed or lost. [...]
Fools and Nets: Who Survives and How
A fool, a fool. I met a fool i’ the forest, A motley fool. (Jaques, As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7) If [...]
Meat and Salt: Equinox
When I first began thinking about Shakespeare’s King Lear and arrogance, I looked in the text for the youngest daughter’s response to her father’s [...]
