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.
Do You Charge Enough?
From an exchange between members of an online group -- identitifying details removed: Person A: I am just sick of seeing people just out to make a buck, regardless of how they treat others. Person B: Right on. I think we need a new paradigm. In the past, it’s been:...
Middle Mind
How easy it is to notice extremes. Maybe that’s why we humans sometimes default to a black or white, good or bad view of ourselves and the world even when long years and experience have proven that life is anything but black and white. Perhaps our minds gravitate to...
An Interview with Byron Katie
In October, 2003, my friend and colleague, Michele Lisenbury Christensen, of Success and Spirit interviewed Byron Katie. She has generously granted permission for the transcript to be freely distributed, and I'm delighted to offer it here.
I want God to play…
I want God to play in my bloodstream like sunlight amuses itself on water. That's just one of the dozens of sentences that have stopped me in my tracks as I listen to Elizabeth Gilbert reading her book, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy,...
Eyes Wide What? Libertarianism, Capitalism, and Social Responsibility, Oh My!
Here are some of the things I've been looking at when I'm supposed to be doing something else, at least in theory. Zaadz. Whole Foods - a second tier vision? The Flow Project. Ken Wilber's blog. Working for Good. Spiral Dynamics. And, would you believe, via John...
What do you care what color you are?
Richard Feynman was married to a dancer from Las Vegas. They were very happy by all accounts. He was grousing one day about not getting the respect of his peers, and she asked, "What do you care what they think?", or something to that effect. It's actually the title...
It’s All About the Tiara
I nearly quit before I started. When I arrived for my first ride with Steve Rhoades in June 2003, I saw a group of attractive strangers arrayed in bright spandex. I couldn’t actually spot the differences between their bikes and mine, but I knew for certain they...
Why Judge Your Neighbor
I don't know about you, but I can be very critical of other people until I sit down to do The Work. Then, it seems, my inner critic takes over. Perhaps it's that I still associate The Work with some form of self imnmprovement. Please God, say it ain't so. Anyway,...
Do We Really Need to Know?
From a recent newsletter from Cheri Huber: We now have the ability to know everything that has gone wrong, every accident, tragedy, and heinous crime; every evidence or suspicion of lying, cheating, deceiving; all the raping, pillaging, and plundering from around the...