New Insights on Capacity
I’ve spent much of my career thinking I was trying to solve problems. Whether they be… Poverty. Homelessness. Healthcare. Food insecurity. Community. And those are indeed worthy…
Culture
-
-
Three Daily Pauses
I find that the three daily prayers observed by many Orthodox Jewish men are worth thinking about. Even if you’re not Jewish. Even if you’re not religious. …
-
Bearing Witness to Love
For years, I’ve thought of myself as someone who serves the poor. But I’m beginning to wonder if that’s not one layer off. Perhaps my vocation is…
-
Building the Ne’er-Do-Well Generation
I saw the phrase ne’er-do-well this morning and felt; there’s something to be said about this idea. In the nineteenth-century Australasian colonies, it referred to young British…
-
Community Resource Advocacy: It’s More than Flyers
One of the things I try to remind our Community Resource Advocates is that people rarely come to us because they’re having a good day. Most of…
-
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Really?
When we encounter someone living in chronic need, there’s often an unspoken question lingering beneath the surface. How much of their situation was caused by their choices?…
-
Mary Parker Follett: Her Ideas Still Matter
The purpose of leadership is not to direct people, but to create the conditions under which people can discover and exercise their collective power… to paraphrase her…
-
You Can’t Just Lean on a Shovel and Pray for a Hole.
I guess it sounds obvious when you say it that way. But, people do it all the time. We hope for better relationships while isolating ourselves from…
-
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Reach, and Freedom of Ownership
I’ve been thinking a lot about social media. Specifically how it’s been coopting me to do its dirty work. How it’s been brainwashing me, slowly and imperceptibly,…
-
The Darjeeling Limited: Letting Go of the Baggage
On the surface, it’s a story about three brothers traveling across India by train after the death of their father. But like many of Wes Anderson’s films,…