“In the face of daunting challenges, we must summon the courage to believe we are the ones we have been waiting for, take risks, and experiment towards solutions. We’re being asked to believe in our inherent capacity, step into the unknown, and challenge deeply held assumptions. For most of us, that’s radically disruptive and contrary […]
Category Archives: passion
Shout out to the Badass LGBTQIA+ Folks
Keep shining. Wear those capes, live your dreams, and let’s together grow a better world. Please and thank you! Lena Waithe became the first Black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Aisha Fukushima
“They try to divide us by color, but it won’t work. No. No. No. They try to take us from each other and it won’t work. We intertwined. I believe in miracles. I believe in a greater world. I believe in good things. And it starts with me. I keep it humble cause I’m always […]
Playing in the Waves
My life feels very interesting right now!! Some personal story telling. In the Fall of 2004, as I was finishing up graduate school, I was in communication with a non-profit that worked with teenagers in foster care. This program was located in North Carolina and they were expanding to include a camp for youth and […]
Job Description
A job description that I wrote in October of 2004, outlining the role I would like to play in a newly developing organization. Still holds true for today. Job Description Attending to the mental, social, emotional, and spiritual health of the system. This involves supporting and nourishing the well-being of individuals, sub-systems (youth, staff, social […]
Your Story Grows My Story
There are times when someone shares a story with me and it pops me open, spurting me out of the narrowness of my lived world and bursting me into an ah-ha that there are ways to experience the world that I’ve never imagined. I expect these experiences when I travel to new places or immerse […]
We’re Alive, Here Now
“Let there be no more holding back onour commitment to our life on earth.” Quote by Helen Titchen Beeth in a comment at Seeds for a happy planetPhoto by St John found in Kids and Nature