Whatever happens in 2022, the beauty of ordinary life is here to stay — When the hunger for your touch Rises from the hunger You whisper, you have loved enough Now let me be the lover ~ Leonard Cohen We are grieving what we have lost to the pandemic in the last two years and are considering new pandemic or post-pandemic possibilities awaiting us…

Step beyond the made-up complexity and artificial urgency of everything — In Ancient Greece, the word for “cook” and “priest” was the same — “mageiros” — sharing an etymological root with “magic.” The word appears again in the revealing 1814 anonymous Old English book, The School for Good Living, defining “magirist” as a “cook and an artist in good living.” …

Turn the dread that stops you into the joy that moves you. You are at the threshold… Present and lucid. One foot in the known, one in the unknown. There is no judgment. There is no force. There is no rush. Here, you are aware of your freedom to be…

Who is a leader and who is a follower is becoming less and less clear, and, frankly, less and less relevant. — My friend Nate battled cancer last year. After an abrupt diagnosis and surgery, he and his wife Christina moved to New York City and stayed with my family during his chemo and radiation treatment. Nate is a leader at Community Solutions, a national non-profit organization, untangling the knot of homelessness…

It’s your captivity and the gateway to your freedom — There are grand stories all around us. In the middle of the holidays, in the pages of the books we read and on the screens we look at. I work with people’s stories for a living. With the experience of coaching more than 100 leaders and working with more than…

Hi Renuka, I've been reading your medium newsletter when I can indulge to take a moment and just wanted to drop you a note here. This article, like many before are caring and brilliant. You are wise beyond your years, and I look forward to reading more. And awesome video by the way, of course you are proud!

You can start with the courage of seeing differently. It is becoming abundantly clear: something has to change. Our communities and our entire species are about to make a turn here. How can we participate? I believe it will begin (and it is already beginning) with the practice of seeing…

It’s holding us all How’s your heart? This has been a mind-bending, heart-shifting, and, I admit, a really bad not very good year for my heart. Something has been put in motion that will not end this December or January, or in 2022, or in 2032. Some of that something…

We are strangers to ourselves, which is wonderful, so we can be hospitable to ourselves and curious about our own lives. I used to be a pastor and would preach a sermon "Normal Is a Setting on a Washing Machine." I lasted for 10 years, turned in my credentials, and…