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There is something deeply affirming about being needed; to be the one others turn to; to be capable, responsive, and steady when life feels uncertain. Many of us have shaped our identities around being generous with our time, our energy, and our attention. We show up. We hold space. We solve problems. There is love […]

Some lives show us that love is not only tenderness, but truth. The life of Toni Morrison offers such a witness. Not because it was untouched by injustice or grief, but because it insisted on remembering what the world tried to forget. In honoring her life, we honor a vision of love that is rooted […]

Some lives help us understand what love looks like when it is lived with courage, intellect, and integrity across a lifetime. The life of Pauli Murray offers such a teaching. Not because it was easy or linear, but because it was faithful to the long work of human dignity. In celebration of Black History Month,  I […]

Beginning today, Valentine’s Day, we launch a monthly offering, entitled, Love Letter to Self. Each month through the end of the calendar year, is an invitation to write a brief love letter to yourself, celebrating you. I invite you into a gentle practice of turning inward with care, curiosity, and kindness. This is an invitation to loving, […]

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King  Jr.’s Urgent Wisdom of TransformationIn a 1967 speech, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. named a truth that remains as urgent now as it was then. He said there are some things in our society to which we should never be adjusted. There are social conditions to which we must remain maladjusted […]

What If You Lived Fully Every Moment of this Year? Just when you think you understand who you are, a brand-new year arrives. It’s a blank canvas—an invitation to begin again, to create your life with intention and heart. As the days unfold, imagine each moment as a brushstroke on your canvas, vivid and unpredictable, yet entirely your […]

This photo was taken at the end of the Awakened Action Retreat, November 2025 at Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM. Pictured left to right: Terry Tempest Williams, Molly Crockett, Valerie Brown, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Dainin Wendy Lau, MD Real power is in coming together to speak truth with compassion, love, and […]

This year, just as DEI programs have been eliminated or severely curtailed in private and public organizations, I have engaged in a yearlong DEI leadership training to enhance my capacity for greater self-awareness, relational trust, and collaboration when faciliatating organizations confronting polarization and uncertainty. In divisive and polarized times, good facilitation is less about guiding a group […]

Just as many of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) federal, state, local, and private programs throughout the United States and elsewhere have been dismantled, I decided this is the perfect time to engage this topic with greater rigor and commitment. This led me to a year-long course of study in which I have been […]

With the passing of the great environmentalist and Buddhist scholar, Joanna Macy, I have been recalling her profound teachings on ‘deep time’. Macy and others have said that we live with a linear sense of time.  We lack an understanding or appreciation of the generations who came before us and those who will come after […]