Today, Thanksgiving Day proper, I give thanks for the uncountable wonderful people in my life. I'm thankful for my outrageously fantastic family and friends, so many of my coworkers, my unreasonably great neighbors, my supportive teachers (both formal and informal), the strangers who've showed me kindness, the near-strangers who I see regularly in ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Human Volume 1, the first of three movies of interviews with people from around the world. It's beautifully and simply shot and edited, and I found it profoundly moving. I look forward to watching the next two. Here's the first one:

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It reminded me of another video project I discovered recently and have been enjoying ( Read more... )

A thing I hadn't really thought about when I switched from moving from managing a team of 6 or 7 to managing a team of 40 is this: if each person has only one crisis a year where they need their manager's help, with 40 people, that's almost every week ( Read more... )

I always have a post-event drop after a large event, and I just finished my largest event ever: 400 people for four days at the Mount Washington Resort in New Hampshire. I started planning it over a year ago, and at the beginning of this year, I handed off most of the remaining planning (which is a lot) to my then-assistant (now successor as I've ( Read more... )

Thinking a lot about missing stairs, loving and compassionate confrontations about bad behavior, the difference between intent and impact ( Read more... )

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Here's a thing that's been happening more and more to me at work, that makes me feel appreciated and valued ( Read more... )

metagnat and I were chatting about relaxing mind tricks, and I described to her one of my favorites:

I imagine my mind/body as a bird, fluffing its feathers out to let the air under and down to its skin. Just typing that makes me feel more relaxed, and evokes a pleasurable feeling throughout my body.

metagnat offered up imagining her favorite comic book ( Read more... )

This true nature of ours tells us what our power is. Understanding power is absolutely critical because you can have all the smarts and devotion and information to carry forth a campaign of action, but if you are still falling for the old notion of power you are crippling yourself. The old notion tells us that power is what one substance does to ( Read more... )

You know those days when you wake up with your heart busting wide open, aching with happiness and the bittersweetness of feeling whole and one with the world, connected to your fellow humans and this lonely hunk of rock we occupy, all in, in it together ( Read more... )