What’s in the Water?

Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream

In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.

Molly Gordon
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Help for Doing The Work on Selling and Sales

This is where you can post your questions about doing The Work on selling or sales. Just click on "post comment" below, write your question, and I will respond with another comment as soon as I can. technorati tags: The Work of Byron Katie sales selling feeling good...

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Beyond the Success Formula: Do The Work on Selling and Sales

Do nice people sell used cars? Is it possible for a decent person to charge a premium for their services (or products), or does maximizing the price your customers will pay make you a sleaze bag? Regardless of what you sell, regardless of whether yours in a for-profit...

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Edith shouldn’t have to be a nanny

In Lima, I spent a few hours at Casa de Las Panchitas, a center where domestic workers could come and rest, visit friends and family, even take lessons in computer studies against the possibility of a better future. Some of the workers were little girls, and I spent...

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Peru, Day 5, Guinea Pigs, Artichokes, and the Group photo

Who said travelogues need to be chronological? Not I. I'd rather start at the intersection of memory and an available photo, for example, this one, taken on May 31st when we visited the Shupluy area. (Copyright 2007 by Peter Frey for CARE). On the day this photo was...

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The Web Women Report from Peru

While I am still digesting the CARE/More Challenge Giving Circle trip to Peru, here's a dispatch from the heart and mind of Joeann Fossland, who started it all. Reprinted with permission, of course. My dear, wonderful Giving Circle Members and Sponsors..... I am...

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Going Sane: Working on Your Work

My only complaint about Carol Skolnick’s new e-book, Transformational Inquiry: Working on Your Work is that, at $14.95, it is seriously under-priced. As it happens, that is not my business; as for the rest, this little gem is a delight to read as well as a practical...

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Laughter is the best secret

While visiting Evelyn Rodriguez's blog, I came across some provocative comments about The Secret, including this post about needlessness and this one about grace. I especially liked this bit, from a reply to one of the commenters: "So, as applies to "The Secret", who...

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Freedom from Self-Improvement

That marvelous maven of self care, Jennifer Louden, has done it again. Jen declared May 15th (I know. That was a few weeks back. But this deserves to be kept alive.) Freedom from Self-Improvement Day. That week, readers of the e-zine received a commemorative book mark...

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