Category: Healing

A Sanctuary

As a result of my recent mar­riage I’ve moved to a new loca­tion. This has meant, first and fore­most, going through the ten years of stuff I accu­mu­lat­ed at my last place — ten years of my life, in pho­tographs, books, papers, art and para­pher­na­lia from my kids (who were 10 and 7 when I… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Sanc­tu­ary

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The Water Gourd

I grew up in a munic­i­pal Human Resources Depart­ment between the years 1979 and 1990. It was a dif­fer­ent world then and I was pro­found­ly lucky. The HR unit I entered, with no pri­or expe­ri­ence in HR, was in vir­tu­al sham­bles, hat­ed and feared by most of the orga­ni­za­tion, most­ly because the depart­ment had become… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Water Gourd

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Secret Selves

Last night a dream about my father awak­ened me. He died last Feb­ru­ary at the age of 96. In the dream my old­er broth­er and I were talk­ing to him about the Holo­caust. As a young man my dad had escaped the rise of the Nazis in Ger­many by leav­ing the coun­try. He rarely talked… Con­tin­ue read­ing Secret Selves

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The Problem With “Touchy-Feely”

There is no term that com­mu­ni­cates quite so much irrev­o­ca­ble dis­missal by man­agers in the busi­ness world than label­ing an action or activ­i­ty, “touchy-feely.” It is the most preva­lent way of dis­card­ing infor­ma­tion about peo­ple. The term sug­gests all those real­ly icky “hygiene” demands of employ­ees, deal­ing with the stuff of rela­tion­ships in the work­place… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Prob­lem With “Touchy-Feely”