Resume Virtues to Legacy Virtues
October 2, 2023
What you leave behindis not what is engraved in stone monuments,but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles In one of the classes I
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Writing is part of my meditative process to clarify my thoughts, to align my actions and to focus on my purpose. I write about my emotions, my shortcomings, and my ideas for a better world through poetry, prose, and what I call rantifestos every day, some of which I post here on my blog and on social media. I share them to help others move along their paths to live and lead with compassion.
Let your fire burn brightly in 2023!
January 3, 2023
Each of us has this incredible flame within us, this fire that we’ve either nurtured or ignored. But there’s a fire within, that is unique to each of us. It’s the essence of who we are. It is something that has been determined by the generations, by the genetics, by the generosity of others. And gratitude is an essential fuel for that fire.
The axe for the frozen sea
October 5, 2022
The only way we can evolve/develop our ideas about who we are and why we’re here is to seek difference, discomfort, something that challenges the way we see things. It’s about finding out how wrong we are along the way. It’s not reinforcing what we think is right. It’s trying to understand how to test and update our truths that guide our lives.
Rediscover your core
September 21, 2022
Like the sedimentary layers of the soil, the dirt of our lives, gets mixed in with the rubble and the gems. The grit and the gravel. The sand and the silt. And our lively footsteps are deadened by the compaction of the layers of our buried ideals, dreams, and destinies. And the path is sealed by the mortar of materialism and the cement of selfishness.
Say something delicious
February 28, 2022
What if the words we say were delicious? What if we curated words so that we consciously uttered tasty syllables? Words with fiber, complexity and real flavor.
Lying does not suit you
October 4, 2021
I have started many a graduate level classes by having the students introduce themselves by giving their name, their degree program and the lie they are telling their parents about what they will do when they graduate. The one that works!
Travel and tell no one
July 6, 2021
Once what we do is constructed for the purpose of generating envy, increasing our status, and our reputation, we undermine authenticity.
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