A Generation Inclined to Share
What might other, more meaningful kinds of sharing look like? On one level, it may mean doing something with all of that good information we come across on a daily/near-daily basis and feel compelled to share with others. It may mean attempting to make sense of all of those ideas, reflecting on them in community with other live human beings (or even just one over coffee) or moving those ideas forward one way or another by offering our own unique insights in our work or art.
The Future (and Present) of Work Is All About Systems
Originally published at Boston.com on January 19, 2012 In my last blog, Forays into the Future of Work, I ask, “What skills and qualities will serve us in the future?” and offer the idea that the world needs connectors. It’s a simple enough idea to grasp, but it’s worth exploring because it can easily get lost […]
Forays into the Future of Work
Originally published at Boston.com on January 6, 2012 Over on the NewProsperity blog in December, I had the privilege of posting a piece by fellow Bostonian Nathan Rothstein on what he hopes for the future of education. Nathan reflects on the importance of financial literacy, civics education, and service for recent grads. Too many young people […]
Returning to the Lonely Page, What I Learned After Taking a Break From Writing
Long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. To be all one meant to be wholly one, to be in oneness, either essentially or temporarily. That is precisely the goal of solitude, to be all one. —Clarissa Pinkola Estes I took a break from writing in 2011. I did a fair […]
Grassroots organizing meets participatory leadership
Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Kelly McGowan tell the story of how The Art of Participatory Leadership and Social change gathering (October 2011) came to be and explore the connections between social change work and participatory process. Tuesday offers a new model for social change weaving social justice and participatory process called “co-revelation.” We talk a lot […]
5 Books for Women Artists/Writers, or 5 Books That Changed Everything
If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland At 17, although I knew I loved writing, I had a hard time getting words on paper. I remember struggling with one assignment in particular, visiting a professor one day to finally ask for help. She recommended this book to me, which was the most helpful thing she […]
Charles Eisenstein on career and money
“Each one of us has unique and necessary gifts. If you don’t know what those are, that’s excusable because we’ve grown up in an educational system that often suppresses those gifts and says ‘No, no, no. You’re purpose is not to give, your purpose is to take, and how can you best make a living? […]
Walking Out Over and Over Again
The world needs walkouts who walk on. When we make a choice to walk out of what no longer serves us (or the people and planet we care about), we embolden others to do the same.
Caroline Knapp on writing and activism
“Steering hope away from false gods, shepherding the focus back toward the heart, learning to see one’s private pain in a larger context, coming to link body with spirit: This, of course, is the essence of revolutionary work, and it always requires the reframing potential of language, the ability of words to fuel insight, rearrange facts, break down old paradigms.” […]
Turning Up the Volume on Women’s Voices
Originally published in Color Magazine, March 2011 Where are the women? In business, technology and media, among other fields, this is the big question we seem to be asking ourselves again and again as a society. It’s the headline of more than a few articles and columns. Despite an appreciation for women’s unique skills and […]
