Hey, Brett, How Can We Change the World? One young man graduated college a year ago. He interviewed and found a job in a corporation. He worked one year in which he came to understand that his passion … [Read more...]

It Makes a Difference to Know Yesterday I was in a business meeting with some spectacular human beings who own a digital animation company. We had reached that point at which our conversation … [Read more...]

In a Dirty Shirt Richard was the boy in my first grade class who never had quite enough for lunch. He made his way to school alone along the back path on foot. He told stories no one believed, … [Read more...]

Forgive the Guy You Don’t Like One of the best things about growing up shy is that I became an observer. I watch people and the patterns in our behavior. Yeah, I watch myself too. Sometimes we do … [Read more...]

Seeing What’s Inside Every year at Christmas, my mother had her own tradition. She began buying gifts and wrapping them long before other folks even thought of such things. It was efficient. It … [Read more...]

Head, Heart, and Meaning! I arrived home from nine day journey, thinking about all of the ways we move forward and around in our lives. Some ways are reflective, slow, and private. Some take … [Read more...]

Play Grownups My son, at age 5, used to sit at a little table on landing that overlooked our dining room. He called it his office, and his office had rules. Like any good office manager, he wrote … [Read more...]

Renewable Resources This morning I was writing the sentence, “Time is our truly unrenewable resource,” when a Twhirl update popped up in the corner of my screen. I was hard not think about the … [Read more...]

March to Your Own Drummer When I was a child, people said I marched to a different drummer. It was said with a bit of love and a forgiving smile. The implication of such a condition was a sad … [Read more...]