An experience in radical gratitude
What I perceived as messiness and chaos were just the act of experiencing life in all its complexity, depth, and glory.
Social justice warriors & political correctness are tearing us apart
There have always been two types of people: 1) change agents who want to drive progress and 2) preservers who want to keep our many great accomplishments intact.
The world’s most insidious belief
If you really listen, this belief is EVERYWHERE. And, in my mind, is perhaps the most destructive and demonstrably untrue belief we carry with us.
An explosion in San Sebastian
Ever since, in moments of anxiety, stress, or intense negativity – if I can find a moment of presence – I go back to San Sebastian.
The many dimensions of personal responsibility
“Personal responsibility” forms the backbone of polarization in our country today. We all agree we need it. But we can’t actually agree on what it means.
Digging for gold at the Right Livelihood Quest
Beyond the job titles, beyond the outfit – what has your life been preparing you perfectly for? That’s the core question of the Right Livelihood Quest.
Beyond #resisting
After almost six weeks off travelling throughout Southeast Asia and then moving with my wife from Seattle to Bellingham, I’m back and ready to go.
Anohni’s HOPELESSNESS is essential listening for 2016
“Negative” feelings are not only necessary and inevitable, but often the source of staggering beauty, and thus essential to the cause of hope.
One step forward, two steps back… ?
We have good reasons to be filled with despair and to believe our society is now decaying and on the brink of a major downturn. But we can also choose to view it as a setback in a broader trajectory of progress.