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Stepping Up and Forward
I have been away from this blog for a while when life and career took a few turns. From December 2012 to November 2014 I directed Energize Everett, a community health outreach program in Everett MA. I took a floundering … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness, Type 1 Diabetes, Work
Tagged community, diabetes, life transitions, type 1 diabetes, women
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Bowing to Our Neighbors
When my sons were small they loved watching Mr. Rogers. I can’t say I loved watching Mr. Rogers, though I was thrilled they did because he was so kind and the show was so calm. But when Mr. Rogers died, … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness, Simplicity
Tagged community, holy, kindness, love, mr. rogers, neighborliness, sacred
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Violence of Technology
Building on the previous post and how we do violence to ourselves through “well-intentioned” over-commitment, this is a brief consideration of the violent consequences of technological approaches driven solely by expediency and efficiency. When measuring human success, we use terms borrowed from technology, words and … Continue reading
Well-Intentioned Violence
My weeks away from here have been consumed writing a grant due May 30th. This grant money replaces federal money recently cut from our program, so there’s a lot of pressure to succeed. Intense periods periods of work test the … Continue reading
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Tagged joy, meditation practice, picasso, simplicity, success, thomas merton, valerie spain, work
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#3 Execute: A Feeling of Strength in Reserve
To pursue the disciplined pursuit of less, Greg McKeown says successful people use routine and ritual to focus on the essential. Artists in all disciplines intimately understand the power of routine. In 2006, Twyla Tharp called creativity a habit in her book, The Creative Habit, and … Continue reading
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Tagged disciplined, disciplined pursuit of less, greg mckeown, less, picasso, simplicity, twyla tharp, valerie spain
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#1 Explore and Evaluate
I’d like to review Greg McKeown’s work for this and the next few posts. He distils his essentialism advice to 3 points: Explore/Evaluate Eliminate Execute In order to get to the essential and discard the unessential McKeown suggests constantly narrowing the … Continue reading
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Tagged essentialism, greg mckeown, simplicity, simplify, valerie spain, work
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The Long View
It helps now and then, to step back and take the long view. The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Lovingkindness, Mindfulness
Tagged heaven, kingdom of heaven, oscar romero
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Sleep on it…
I had been struggling with a lack of physical energy for the last month or so. One night last week, after an acupuncture treatment, I had a long, sound sleep. I woke up refreshed and alert- I was not tired. … Continue reading
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Michael Pollen goes into the kitchen to cook, and finds answers to pressing health, environmental, social– even spiritual– problems. “…what is the most important thing an ordinary person can do to help reform the American food system, to make it … Continue reading
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