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.
8 Irresistible Principles of Fun
What it says. Watch the movie here.
The Power of Pretends
My 3-year old granddaughter, Ellie, doesn't need to pretend her way down the ski slopes. That's her taking her first run. I, on the other hand, am usually a tentative skier. I started at 42, and in ten years I've made only modest progress. Still, I've learned a thing...
Harvest Lessons
This is SO COOL. Chasing down a link from Bernie deKoven's site, I came upon a free audio and video podcasting service called Odeo. I've been wanting to podcast, but haven't hd the time to work it all out. (I don't think it's complicated, but still...) So i jumped in...
You’ll never figure your way out of the hole
"I just can't seem to figure out what I want to do." "Why can't I figure out what's next for me?" "If only I could figure out my purpose." These and similar thoughts plague my clients, and they used to plague me. (Knock on wood.) But recently I was struck by a BFOO...
How Much Should a Personal Growth Coach Charge?
It can be maddening for a new coach to try and find information about setting fees. While there are no hard and fast rules and it would be illegal for a professional association to "set" fees (restraint of trade laws.), here are some thoughts that you may find...
Juggling Love
Thanks to Cymber Quinn for sending me the link to this amazing artist's "must-see finale." I really, really love this.
Two Quotes: Practice, God, the Space Between Us
"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of...
Can we forgive each other for being insecure?
Recently I spent time with a woman I've known for seven or eight years. I know her to be extremely competent, warm, even loving. Yet I'd often experience a chill sense of inauthenticity in her, and my automatic response was to feel subtely threatened. Inauthenticity,...
A Thread of Grace
Some years back I happened on a book titled The Sparrow while browsing my local library. I devoured this wonderful novel and its sequal, The Children of God, and ever since I've hoped for another by the author, Mary Doria Russell. Yesterday in the Las Vegas airport, I...