Category: Reflection & Rumination
Rebuilding requires slowing down
“Institutions are not forever nor are organizations reliable in the way professionals have been prepared to believe.”
What chaos asks of us
Steps we take at this time may not be “strategic” but they may be what helps change…everything.
Let us be guardians
How do we make sufficient space for other possibilities to emerge? An invitation to “The Pause”, a 15-minute daily practice beginning March 28th.
Longing for stability
“We try to do many things to create security, consistency, and reliability in our lives. And despite our best efforts, none of it is guaranteed.”
Welcome to the party
In the wake of changes to USAID, many aid professionals are asking…what now? I humbly offer a few questions to help.
The price of rushing
For example, “…we spend our energy searching for ‘what works,’ rather than exploring what’s possible and feasible.”
Releasing illusions
“Our go-to strategies and tools as nonprofits have run their course. Because they are all predicated on predictability.”
Both/and days, revisited
We have lived four years in a disabling, global pandemic and yet the “technology” we rely on constantly asks us to override our bodies’ needs.
What rest requires of us
Rest is a political choice for me because its cumulative impact is that there’s no room or space or energy for anything to change. [Urgency] depletes what I need to dream, to perceive more possibilities.
Relating
The practice of noticing what’s the same, and what’s different…is at the crux of relating to others, and differences are too rarely named in favor of group or social cohesion.
Slow & Fast
“It seems like everything has happened all at once, but I know that it took many years of effort and growth and strain and hope and loss on both of our parts to arrive here with each other.”
