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As I write this, we are several weeks beyond the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. I have tried a number of times to gather my thoughts into the written word and come up short each time. I...

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By my calculations, we are into Week Eight of this thing. My daughter and I noted that no member of our family of five has been out of the greater DC area in all that time, except for a slightly harrowing journey to...

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Have you found that the Covid19 pandemic is allowing you to make progress on projects that you had stalled on? To complete things that had gone uncompleted? Perhaps to clean closets, empty boxes, review old pape...

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It was one month ago--March 13--that my kids’ schools were shut down because of Coronavirus. When the announcement of the closure came, it was paired with the news that schools would reopen today, April 13. Well...

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My wife is a yoga teacher. The other day in her (online) class--which you can catch here--she talked about the miraculous fact that before a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it literally liquefies inside its chr...

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I wrote the blog below on Friday morning. Perhaps, like me, you have noted how incredibly fast things are changing in our world. And how something that happened just a day or two ago seems so far away now.

The gi...

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Here’s how I am a little different from the other guys who co-founded Soul Degree: I’m an alumnus.

I participated in the June 2019 Retreat in Vermont, along with eight or so other guys who, like me, knew little o...

Anyone who has read, listened to, or watched the news in the past five years—at least via a source that acknowledges climate change is real—has heard more or less the following statement:

No particular hurricane or other extreme weather event can be precisely ascribed t...

Nature can bring you to stillness. That is its gift to you.

--Eckhart Tolle

I am just back from Zion National Park in Southwest, UT. My three and a half days in the park came as a celebration of the 50th birthdays of five college buddies and myself. In addition to a wond...

There is a soundtrack to my life. For example,

• The other day I said, “Hey Google! Play Patsy Cline.” And then explained to Riley and Tae how when we were dating, Tara gave me Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits on tape and I’d listen to it as I drove from Palo Alto to Modes...