Courage-Perseverance
Quit v. Grit
So very, very synchronistically, the week I posted Winding Down These Posts, a friend sent me the link to a BBC4 podcast interviewing Annie Duke about her new book Quit: […]
Navigating the “Oh, shit!” circuit
I had my own lived experience navigating the “oh, shit!” circuit just last week. What neuroscientists call the “Oh, shit!” circuit is the disruption of dopamine when we get a […]
Opportunities and Obstacles
As you read this post this morning, I will be immersing myself in the Mill Valley Film Festival, October 6-16, 2022, watching 32 films from around the world in 8 […]
Hope Is Confrontation of Darkness
Quite a dramatic statement: Hope is confrontation of darkness. Spoken by psychologist and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger in the recent Sounds True Activating Hope Summit. (I truly wish I […]
Finding HOPE When Everything Feels Hopeless
Finding HOPE When Everything Feels Hopeless by Elizabeth Bernstein appeared in the Wall Street Journal October 28, 2020, one week before the U.S national elections, still very relevant as the […]
Flattened by the News of the World…Revived by the Wonder of the Natural World
Exactly one week ago today, I was flattened by the specific news of the president of the United States testing positive for the coronavirus. Everyone in this world is struggling […]
Do One Thing Every Day that Scares You
By now you’ve seem some of the many tributes honoring the life and work of civil rights activist John Lewis, or perhaps seen the excellent documentary Good Trouble. Calling us […]
America Is Failing the Marshmallow Test
My heart leapt up when I learned that I can now order books online from my local library and pick them up curbside by reserving an appointed time. Likewise, my […]
How to Endure the Wait – The Light at the End of the Tunnel Strategy
The best epidemiologists, public health officials, government officials don’t concur on how long it will take to “flatten the curve” of the current coronavirus pandemic. When it will be deemed […]
Hope is a Tricky Thing
In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me there’s something stronger, pushing right […]