Dear Everyone: Life has a way of teaching us the same lesson until we finally demonstrate competence. The universal lesson of now seems to be Tend Your Bandwidth. Our bandwidth is both a precious and limited resource, deserving of recognition, honor, and guarding against wasteful expenditure. Where we spend our time, what we give our attention, with whom we share our energy -- it all matters a great deal, particularly in this time when so many, many, MANY things are vying lou

Pain teaches us the most counterintuitive thing – that we must go down before we even can know what up is. Suffering of some sort seems the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. For if we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it. Fr. Richard Rohr ~~ Dear Everyone: Uncertainty always breeds intense discomfort. Unfortunately, in our headlong sprint away from the discomfort of these times, we can all-too-easily position ou

Dear Everyone: Recently, I've fielded a lot of requests for presentations and tools on resiliency. Specifically in healthcare and education, there is appropriate, growing concern from administrators about the emotional health and well-being of their staff, and a desire for experts to provide them with resiliency tips and tools that may help. All this begs an important question: are we facing an epidemic of resilience-deficiency? Or are we simply asking too much? 2020 has been