Game Night, the Serenity Prayer, and Advocacy in the Anthropocene.
My friends and family got together to go apple picking and play games yesterday. It was a bit drizzly, but warm as we over-loaded our bags […]
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A Fine Line
I struggle, nearly every day, to find the right place for the line that divides know-it-all lecturing from leadership. The line that divides aggressive bossiness […]
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Kool-aid
1978: Jonestown, Guyana. Over 900 people died, including 87 young children, when they drank Kool-aid laced with cyanide and other drugs upon the advice of […]
Continue reading »Searching for Those Who Care.
Today, in the scant five-block walk to the grocery store, I saw a dozen or so popped latex balloons strewn on the sidewalk and adjacent […]
Continue reading »What do We Want to be When We Grow Up?
We don’t have a technology problem, we have a people problem (John Boecker, 2018). By that I mean the people working within the existing systems […]
Continue reading »Our Need for Nature
I realized as my son and I were hiking in the Adirondacks this last Friday that we spent a week planning, drove 2.5 hours each […]
Continue reading »Equity or Equality?
This morning I encountered a very good example of equity versus equality, before I even had my morning coffee. It’s all about salami and cheese […]
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We Need to Close the Loop
I picked up new recycling bins a few days ago, as our bins have been totally mangled and broken by the pick-ups. Not to blame […]
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Why?
The kitchen was bright, sunny, and messy with the preparations for Sunday’s roast beef dinner. The whole family would be home, and the young boy […]
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I’m recently into a focused effort to reduce my plastic exposure and use, and here is an update. First, my umbrella thoughts: I truly believe […]
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