I will live in this world
I will live in this world. I will live in this world where the growing freedom of many provokes the hateful violence of a few. I will live in this…
10 Thoughts On My Birthday
Yesterday I turned 34. I cashed in on my free Starbucks drink and wrote down some things I’m thinking as I enter my 35th year of life. Here are 10 of…
Accomplish more of what you care about in 2017
I made this quick worksheet to help you set and achieve goals you really care about. Going through it myself only took about 30 minutes, and it gave me a lot of clarity for…
Best Of
These are some of my favorite things I’ve written lately: While on sabbatical in Oklahoma I discovered that the state locks up more women per capita than anywhere else on…
To Take Flight Every Day!
All progress towards a better world begins with internal work, spiritual work, even if you’re like me and not so sure you believe in spirits. “To take flight every day!…
Modern Tribes and Battles
With the Super Bowl coming up, this description of modern tribalism from EO Wilson’s The Social Conquest of Earth seems timely: Modern groups are psychologically equivalent to the tribes of…
A Marathon in Uganda
On a hot Ugandan morning last fall, face slack with exhaustion, I crossed the finish line of my first marathon, the Kampala International Marathon in the country’s hilly capital. Some…
Conscience Laundering: The Nonprofit-Industrial Complex
Warren Buffet’s son Peter has a brave and cutting op-ed in the New York Times today, about how the industry of charity is more a way to relieve the consciences…
Love in the Time of Atheism
[Originally published on Medium] A good friend just sent around this post about love from Marianne Williamson, (she who, rather than Nelson Mandela, said, “Our deepest fear is not that we are…