Holding Ourselves Back

If you like, you can lis­ten to me read this post. Recent­ly, I’ve been great­ly inspired by the pas­sion­ate writ­ing of Eve­lyn Rodriguez at her Cross­roads Dis­patch­es blog. In a cou­ple of recent post­ings, “The Time Has Come to Be Fear­less” and espe­cial­ly her elo­quent and heart-felt fol­low-up, “Still Fear­less,” she explores what I would… Con­tin­ue read­ing Hold­ing Our­selves Back

Deep Loneliness and the Raft of Self

Any­one who has tak­en the risk to live their per­son­al mean­ings is like­ly to come up against a dif­fi­cult fact: that to live in this cho­sen (and des­tined) way may also mean deep lone­li­ness. It is not always so, of course, but unless you are will­ing to ful­ly sur­ren­der to where your des­tiny might lead… Con­tin­ue read­ing Deep Lone­li­ness and the Raft of Self

Leadership Poems

If you like, lis­ten to me read this post. As I’ve checked my blog stats late­ly, I’ve found many search­es for “lead­er­ship poems” or “poems about lead­er­ship.” I’m assum­ing this rep­re­sents an unmet need, if only as the prod­uct of some class­room assign­ment some­where around the world. I can hear it now, “Write an essay… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship Poems