Ode to Les: Six Life Lessons My Mentor Taught Me
I got an out-of-the-blue email the other day from a couple of old friends and colleagues. They were looping me into a broader email thread of former Les Aspin staffers in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Les’ death. For those of you who don’t know, Aspin was...
How We Can Help Coronavirus Lead to a New Renaissance
We have a choice: we can either retrench into what was, realigning with old systems that have already revealed their cracks, or take the brave step the Renaissance Men and Women took to envision a new future—and then create that. The medieval Plague seems irrelevant...
Create a Better World by Eliminating Rigidity of Thought
In times of tremendous instability, the easiest tendency to fall victim to is retrenchment. “Let’s just go back to how things were before…” many find themselves musing. But the “good old days” crowd has to face some facts. For one, unless somebody creates Doc Brown’s...
In Pursuit of Truth
In today’s age of media mistrust, I believe the pursuit of truth is one of the most important quests of our time. It is our holy grail. Our pilgrimage. Because democracy as we know it is in peril. Generally speaking, people don’t know what to believe anymore and they...
REACH!
“Reach!” “Look far. Look far. Farther!” “Open! Reach! More!” “Look far. Look far, farther.” The words of Wilson Motizuki, the Sensei’s senior student and protege, command us as we stand in a dew-laden field facing east, the sun about to make its entrance on the...
‘A Peaceful Transfer of Power Didn’t Happen This Year’ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/27/opinion/jan-6-committee-facts.html?smid=tw-share
Once again, an important reminder on the importance of understanding the facts of history to grasp the #present. Opinion | Deb Haaland: My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this #history. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/11/deb-haaland-indigenous-boarding-schools/?tid=ss_tw