Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. “People don’t change.” “Nothing ever changes.” We’ve all heard these assessments of the possibility of change, but the fact is that, in the material realm that we live in, change is the only thing we can count on. In fact, if there’s one …
Why I’m going to fast in the desert
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, and though I’m sure that I felt my absence more than anyone else, my guilt is giving rise to a little writer’s block as I sit down to compose this week’s post. My inner perfectionist, …
How to talk about white supremacy
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post Last week I wrote about the importance of practicing mindfulness when talking about white supremacy so that we don’t get caught up in good/bad thinking (a major characteristic of white supremacy culture) about the people we are talking to. This week I will …
Mindfulness and talking about white supremacy
Click on the image to be taken to the full Instagram post In this post, I share my thoughts on how mindfulness can help us have more productive and connecting conversations about white supremacy. So, it finally happened. Two personal friends in the last month have indicated that they think I’ve been writing an awful …
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Calling all dreamers, artists, idealists, healers, leaders, and educators
https://youtu.be/mzj9N6Zjblk Calling all dreamers! Calling all healers! This will be a short post. I want to save the world. If you’re reading my stuff, you probably want to do that too. I have an idea for how we can do it, but we need to move a lot faster than our busy 21st-century consumer capitalist …
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Personal growth for social change: You can’t change people without changing yourself
Photo by Boudewijn Huysmans on Unsplash Last week I wrote about how you can’t change the world without changing people. For those of you who were itching to start proselytizing about your vision for social change, today I’m taking the lesson one step further, into the realm of personal growth. You can’t change people without …