handwritten on July 8, 2019
I think it's important that we dare to try something new. To try something uncomfortable. To challenge ourselves to live outside our comfort zones. Today was our first day of Summer Learning Academy. Certainly a new role for me, a bit scary and did create a bit of anxiety leading up to the first day. But this is how we learn as humans- to create circumstances for ouselves that allow us to grow and challenge existing perspectives and help us to expand ourselves in a different way or in a new directions.
And despite the first day having a few hiccups, what I realized is most important about life events and leadership is this idea that stars will always fall. Or, certain stars that have...
handwritten on July 7, 2019
Gosh for those of you who don't play, it doesn't matter. Today was a day of brilliance. A day of equality. A day that reminds us all that the best games won are together and never apart. That game of soccer is just pure brilliance. For someone who played and loved the game throughout childhood and middle school, I can honestly say there is no other game that demands team, demands brilliance, demands cooperation, demands love, demands respect more than the game of soccer.
I have never felt more proud of our American team than how I felt this morning. And it didn't even have to do with the winning. It had to do with their celebration of eachother. It was obviously they clearly lifted each...
handwritten on July 5, 2019
I think the reason why progress is not made more within ourselves and in the world is perhaps because we shy away from those who know their voice. Think about the people you have never met but the ones you have heard before that may seem too loud. Like you are walking down the street in your neigborhood and you hear someone laugh too loudly. Like that laugh cuts through a crowd. Notice though that usually you feel self-conscious for them. They remain perfectly secure. Why? It makes us uncomfortable. But loudness is not just volume, I think it's the sense of certainty in which we hear or feel a message or a problem or a perspective. And the more certain a message is, the more pure the...
handwritten on July 4, 2019
Sure we gather to see the fireworks and wear our red, white and blue and indulge in blue popsicles with our bright white tennis shoes, but let us not forget the real reason why we wear those colors and what they should stand for.
Red is power. Red is the juicy watermelon stains on the white shirts of kids everywhere-living anywhere. Red is the mixed colors of the sunset, the unity in the beating of our hearts when we root eachother on but also the fiery passion many of us have to make a difference in justice, in love, in acceptance, in peace, in equality. The red is the almost not quite there yet color-maybe never will be, but small changes and we will be..significantly better. And brighter...
handwritten on July 3, 2019
I started the late afternoon with a little rain talk. For those unfamiliar, rain talk occurs in all spaces and places when a giant rain storm passes through and the folk there realize they have forgotten their umbrellas. On another magical (always) trip to the library, I came to the front stoop right inside the library only to realize I had no umbrella and a giant storm was passing through. So I waited, joined by other fellow conversationalists who realized they were not going anywhere either without their umbrellas. And so people began chatting, and I began listening and heard many interesting stories on that stoop mixed with the heavy patter of the rain just outside the world of books. ...
