What We're Thinking
How we choose to talk about where we are and where we’re going is no small matter.
The way we choose to talk about things is vitally important. As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously put it, “Words create worlds.” Embedded in this elegant three word sentence is the transformative idea that language does not describe what we see, it forms it, gives it shape, creates it.
The virus has a lot to teach us.
Boundaries are essential constraints in our lives. At the most fundamental, individual level, a boundary lets me know where I end and you begin. What is mine and what is yours.
We use them in similar ways everywhere to create lines of demarcation and distinctions between places, groups, objects, ideas, pretty much everything.
Solitude makes it possible to find connection.
In a 2012 TED Talk, Sherry Turkle shares her insights about why and how technology interferes with our ability to be by ourselves. Writing that sentence just now I find myself thinking, “Of course technology gets in the way of us being alone. It’s all about being connected. Duh.”
Five steps toward coherent conversation and authentic exchanges.
We humans come together in different ways whenever we want to accomplish something. This is called organizing and it puts us in a relationship with one another. These relationships are built on, moved by, and sustained through conversation.
