As I sit down to write to you this week, I don’t even know where to begin. Every time I try to get my thoughts together to write something cohesive, practical, or useful about how current events intersect with our personal growth and collective evolution, I’m...
Most of us were raised in what I like to call domination cultures. Domination cultures run on power and control, shame and blame, fear and righteousness. In these cultures, we’re conditioned to see the world through one primary (often unconscious) question: What is...
When I “misbehaved” as a child, I’d be met with a wagging finger and a harsh tone: “Who do you think you are?” – sometimes followed by the rhetorical question, “The Queen of Sheba?” This usually meant I was being too...
While grading papers for a graduate class I’m teaching at St. Mary’s University recently, I realized my approaching to “grading” has fundamentally transformed since I began teaching in the mid-1990’s. It’s become much more gentle. I used to read with an...
When I was 13, my younger sister and I came across a couple of neighbor boys throwing rocks at a bat lying injured on the ground.Outraged, my little sister flung herself at them and began pulling them away in order to protect the bat.I helped.Backing away, these boys...