Your Great Idea? We Tried That Already – It Will Never Work

  How many times have you come up with a great idea that deeply excited you, only to have it met with lukewarm reception or “we tried that already,” or “that will never work,” or any of the other idea killing comments people often make?  The kind of idea that made you feel you were […]

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Field Guide to Modern Day Transition: Inspiration #327

Why Writing Matters   For those who are familiar with the literary magazine The Sun (https://www.thesunmagazine.org), I rediscovered this gem from the founder, Sy Syfransky’s Notebook: (Issue number to follow when I locate it in one of my many piles.) He writes: “Why it matters to me why I write every morning:  1. Because writing […]

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Getting Unstuck and Making A Difference

Getting Unstuck and Making A Difference Mid-Week Workbench 10-4-17 Sense of Place: Early morning, Wednesday, my son’s birthday. 15 years ago, at 3:18 AM, this amazing human made his entrance into this world.  I am at our kitchen table, coffee in hand, waiting on the sun and my family to wake up.  Morning time to […]

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