Category Archives: Reflection
Camino Reflection #1
My flight to Europe does not leave until August 23 but it feels like my pilgrimage and the associated learnings have begun. Over the past few days I have been sending a message to friends and family telling about my … Continue reading
FollowAikido Reflection from July 2009
Exhausted. And pleased. There is energy tingling in my hands and feet even while my core feels heavy. I am curious about how I am reacting, what sense to make of it, how to embrace this as … Continue reading
Healthcare: The Machine
The Machine
The Machine endangers all we have made.
We allow it to rule instead of obey.
To build the house, cut the stone sharp and fast:
the carver’s hand takes too long to feel its way.
The Machine never hesitates or we might escape
and … Continue reading
CHD’s Amazing Story of Teamwork
The June issue of the Peer Spirit newsletter is out with the story of CHD’s building project. It has now been a year and a half since we moved into the building and I am still filled with wonder and … Continue reading
My Travel Map
It is interesting to see a visual of my travels. I feel a bit overwhelmed and discouraged by how much white space there is and so little green space. It could easily activate my competitiveness to want to … Continue reading
Why Stay?
Today is the one year anniversary of my leaving CHD after 35 years of wresting with the question of “Why stay?”. So, I love this reflection from Meg Wheatley. What she says resonates with my experience for years of staying … Continue reading
Posted in Inspirational Writing, Reflection
Tagged Margaret Wheatley, Perseverence, Reflection
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Loss
“If we are able to give ourselves to the loss, to move toward it – rather than recoil in an effort to escape, deny, distract or obscure – our wounded hearts become full, and out of that fullness we will … Continue reading
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What’s Going on in Athens?
I can hardly pull myself away from the events going on in Athens and throughout Greece right now. Calling it “Real Democracy” or “Direct Democracy”, the people of Athens are returning to their roots as the birth place of democracy … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Hosting, Reflection
Tagged Athens, collapse, community, democracy, self organizing
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How to Talk about Community Building as Self-Organization?
Lately I have been in a number of conversations about self-organizing systems, emergence and what it means to be part of encouraging the development of a different kind of community. In these conversations, I feel challenged to articulate distinctions between … Continue reading
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Tagged Berkana, CHD, community, Living Systems, Margaret Wheatley, self-organization
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My Essential Job Description
In a time of great fear and the crashing of old ways of being, as humanity begins to wake up and to see the pain and suffering of Earth and her people, as the forces of the old ways … Continue reading