Blog | LODESTAR

All Posts
COVID-19
Resiliency

May 9
9 min

Stochastic Surrender

Dear Everyone: "Stochastic Surrender." A friend and colleague reached out last night and asked me for the “two words of my past week.” St...

May 2
7 min

Stay In The Discomfort of Uncertainty

The grey mists of uncertainty always breed intense discomfort. Unfortunately, in our haste to move out of uncomfortable places we can all...

Apr 28
8 min

Flecti Non Frangi

Dear Everyone: The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed – to be seen, heard and compa...

Apr 19
7 min

Knowin' what to throw away, and knowin' what to keep....

Dear Everyone: I had an entire, rather pissed-off paragraph right here before I remembered to take a deep breath (yep. Breathing: Still i...

Apr 17
4 min

#FarmSchool

Dear Everyone: I've received a whole truckload of "whaddabout" questions over the last couple of days. There's a lot of new information o...

Apr 15
7 min

We Repeat What We Don't Repair

Dear Everyone: I don’t have the ‘Rona. Thank you all who reached out over the last 24 hours to check in. Y’all are generous and kind, a...

Apr 15
4 min

There's No Crying In A Pandemic...

Dear Everyone: Well, we’re back for a second round of Q&A. Hopefully this time we can move beyond a single issue (last time we never got ...

Apr 10
3 min

Check Your People

Dear Everyone: Check your people today. This was a long, tough week for many of us. We knew it would be going in - we knew the number of ...

Apr 8
4 min

"Everyone will be wearing them..."

Dear Everyone: I've been asked several times to do some type of Q&A, and I've hesitated in part because I am loathe to get into FB debate...

Apr 7
6 min

Only This Moment

Dear everyone: Oct. 20, 2014, at age 13, my eldest son was diagnosed with high risk, acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia is a medical ...

Apr 3
2 min

Spiritual Resilience

Dear Everyone: First off, it's Friday. Yes, I double-checked. Secondly, just a reminder that now is the perfect time to change into day...

Apr 1
6 min

Tough Love

Dear Everyone: This is a tough-love post. I'm writing this one specifically for those of you who need to share it with people in your cir...

Mar 31
3 min

Imperfect Progress

Dear Everyone: I truly loved my maternal grandfather growing up. He was a kind, capable, quiet giant of a man who was perpetually and si...

Mar 30
4 min

I Wish it Didn't Have to Be

Dear Everyone: As I was cleaning the kitchen tonight, I glanced over and there - at the end of our big farm table where he sat and studie...

Mar 28
4 min

The Uncomfortable or Unthinkable

Dear Everyone: My husband walked through the office behind me last night muttering, “I choose denial. It’s easier…” Amen, my love. It’...

Mar 26
3 min

Social Distancing Is For The Birds

Dear Everyone: #SocialDistancing to radically #FlattenTheCurve is for the birds. We're social animals, and even those among us who clai...

Mar 25
3 min

All We Have is Us

Dear Everyone: I love seeing how seriously everyone is beginning to take the #Suppression strategy in this pandemic through their mindful...

Mar 24
2 min

Letting Go

2/2 Dear Everyone: It was a long week all day today. Is it Friday, yet? Does Friday even mean anything, anymore? For the record, my kids ...

Mar 24
5 min

We Can Fix Anything But Dead.

Dear Everyone: One of my favorite things to say to my kids - and yours, too, if they’ve spent any time hanging with us - is: “Talk to me....

Mar 22
4 min

Souls on Deck

Dear Everyone: “My friends, do not lose heart: We were made for these times. Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once,...

{"items":["5eb70bf7a66bef0018ec209b","5eacc083105e9500b1ab7039","5eacc009f9b9960109d87d06","5ea318547e19910017459428","5ea31718743f710017640b3b","5e976b56926dfb001728e2bd","5ea315a20e03d900179b4a42","5e90d4a6d1a4190017cda9c4","5e8fdb74caa51200177dc094","5e8fd8b3a132e40017e6b539","5e87361adfd099001736f585","5e8736f4dcd249001722bd18","5e873a898b146c0017256bf5","5e873ac44ad00200174c9298","5e873b5f4884c1002dd3eb32","5e873ba9ea6cb00018a1c5a1","5e873c50ea6cb00018a1c6ab","5e873c86690aa90017eefa98","5e873cd2cfacdc001722b1c1","5e8614158b146c001723d96a"],"styles":{"galleryType":"Columns","groupSize":1,"showArrows":true,"cubeImages":true,"cubeType":"fill","cubeRatio":1.3333333333333333,"isVertical":true,"gallerySize":940,"collageAmount":0,"collageDensity":0,"groupTypes":"1","oneRow":false,"imageMargin":16,"galleryMargin":0,"floatingImages":0,"chooseBestGroup":true,"smartCrop":false,"hasThumbnails":false,"enableScroll":true,"isGrid":true,"isSlider":false,"isColumns":false,"isSlideshow":false,"cropOnlyFill":false,"fixedColumns":1,"enableInfiniteScroll":true,"isRTL":false,"minItemSize":50,"rotatingGroupTypes":"","rotatingCubeRatio":"","gallerySliderImageRatio":1.7777777777777777,"numberOfImagesPerRow":1,"numberOfImagesPerCol":1,"groupsPerStrip":0,"borderRadius":0,"boxShadow":0,"gridStyle":1,"mobilePanorama":false,"placeGroupsLtr":false,"viewMode":"preview","thumbnailSpacings":4,"galleryThumbnailsAlignment":"bottom","isMasonry":false,"isAutoSlideshow":false,"slideshowLoop":false,"autoSlideshowInterval":4,"useCustomButton":false,"bottomInfoHeight":0,"titlePlacement":"SHOW_ON_THE_RIGHT","galleryHorizontalAlign":"center","galleryTextAlign":"center","galleryVerticalAlign":"center","scrollSnap":false,"itemClick":"expand","fullscreen":true,"allowSocial":true,"allowDownload":false,"allowTitle":true,"allowDescription":false,"loveButton":true,"loveCounter":false,"videoPlay":"hover","scrollAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","scrollDirection":0,"overlayAnimation":"FADE_IN","arrowsPosition":0,"arrowsSize":23,"watermarkOpacity":40,"watermarkSize":40,"useWatermark":true,"watermarkDock":{"top":"auto","left":"auto","right":0,"bottom":0,"transform":"translate3d(0,0,0)"},"loadMoreAmount":"all","defaultShowInfoExpand":1,"allowTitleExpand":true,"allowDescriptionExpand":true,"allowLinkExpand":true,"expandInfoPosition":0,"allowFullscreenExpand":true,"fullscreenLoop":false,"galleryAlignExpand":"left","addToCartBorderWidth":1,"addToCartButtonText":"","slideshowInfoSize":200,"playButtonForAutoSlideShow":false,"allowSlideshowCounter":false,"hoveringBehaviour":"NEVER_SHOW","thumbnailSize":120,"magicLayoutSeed":1,"imageHoverAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","calculateTextBoxHeightMode":"AUTOMATIC","calculateTextBoxWidthMode":"PERCENT","textBoxHeight":0,"textBoxWidth":200,"textBoxWidthPercent":50,"textImageSpace":10,"textBoxBorderRadius":0,"textBoxBorderWidth":0,"textsVerticalPadding":0,"textsHorizontalPadding":-30,"titleDescriptionSpace":6,"customButtonText":"","customButtonBorderWidth":1,"customButtonBorderRadius":0,"loadMoreButtonText":"","loadMoreButtonBorderWidth":1,"loadMoreButtonBorderRadius":0,"imageInfoType":"ATTACHED_BACKGROUND","itemBorderWidth":1,"itemBorderRadius":0,"itemEnableShadow":false,"itemShadowBlur":20,"itemShadowDirection":135,"itemShadowSize":10,"imageLoadingMode":"BLUR","expandAnimation":"NO_EFFECT","imageQuality":90,"usmToggle":false,"usm_a":0,"usm_r":0,"usm_t":0,"videoSound":false,"videoSpeed":"1","videoLoop":true,"gallerySizeType":"px","gallerySizePx":940,"itemBorderColor":{"themeName":"color_12","value":"rgba(143,174,196,1)"},"galleryLayout":2,"modifiedGallerySize":true,"selectedLayout":"2|bottom|1|fill|true|0|true","layoutsVersion":2,"selectedLayoutV2":2,"isSlideshowFont":false,"externalInfoHeight":0,"externalInfoWidth":0.5},"container":{"width":940,"galleryWidth":972,"galleryHeight":1440,"scrollBase":0,"height":null}}