Reading Archives (Author)
Welcoming The Stranger
My husband, children, and I have lived in 7 countries for the last decade and a half. We have always been the strangers knocking on new...
My Final Shareholder Letter
One perhaps self-serving observation. I’m happy to say I feel better about the second half of my life than the first. My advice:...
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is the most powerful thing that you can do for your physiology and your spirituality, and it remains one of the least...
The Full Spectrum Of True Wealth
For the past thirty years, I have been privileged to work with all kinds of people -- ordinary people, not just professionals. Each in...
We Have Forgotten Sabbath
A "successful" life has become a violent enterprise. We make war on our own bodies, pushing them beyond their limits; war...
What We Need Is Here
Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer's end. In time's maze...
Art of Awareness
Thoreau wrote: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." The art of awareness is the art of learning how to wake up to the eternal...
Lead Not Dominate
From the dawn of human society up to the present time, we have been bedeviled by a persistent curse: the compulsion people feel to...
The Value of Solitude
Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence. The lost sheep is lonely; the shepherd is not lonely. But the...
Learning How To Think
Let’s start with how you don’t learn to think. A study by a team of researchers at Stanford came out a couple of months ago....
Wisdom in the Workplace
Actually, wisdom is not anything new in the workplace, it simply has not been acknowledged and legitimized as essential to organizational...
Business Lessons from A Quiet Gardener
The people who know me best know that at heart I am just a quiet gardener. My garden has probably taught me the most about how things...
We See Into The Life Of Things
These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely...