Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, say the rangers or the seals or some extreme group of elite soldiers who we pedestal for being the peak of focus and achievement. Also, Nature would suggest, much is accomplished by rest, apparent idleness, and letting things do their thing without you hovering and fussing and tapping your foot… basically, while you’re looking the other way, or on holidays having forgotten about them. What if our analogies for leadership and productivity came from Nature, instead of sports, machines, war and celebrities? Would life just be BETTER?
The gospel of salad with Simone McIsaac of Rootdown Organics
In late September, Robin O’Neill dropped me a note. We’ve collaborated in a host of wonderful ways over the years – I admire her work so much – and she’d been shooting some images in my neck of the woods, at Rootdown Organics. Simone McIsaac had said, “not all salad greens are the same”, and…
On the power of pep-talks
Vulnerability, well-met, might be the Universe’s secret connective tissue. And the best way to strengthen it is to ask for, or offer, a word of encouragement, when someone’s courage has slipped away for an unscheduled break.
Six Things I Learned About Resistance Preparing to Deliver a Workshop on Navigating Resistance
Keita, the Pemberton Arts Council’s Programming Coordinator who is leading up a beautiful local workshop series, and I, were at the same all-day business planning session, so we tucked ourselves to the side for a moment, to jam on the specifics of my offering to host a workshop. The workshops are this gorgeous grassroots celebration…
Seeking outlets for love and rage
I interviewed mountain biker Casey Brown fourteen years ago, and have never forgotten the thing she shared, that her dad taught her, that powered her racing. When you ride, he advised, “Put all your love and hate into it.” The thing that struck me in this Wise-Dad-Counsel was the baseline acknowledgement to his daughter, that:…
Struggle is a keystone habit
Without struggle, there is no growth.
And no high, either.
Why the gym is currently the keystone habit that’s teaching me why and how to keep creating
The Shape of Time
For professional climber Ines Papert and mountain guide Sarah Hueniken, 50 is just a number. “It’s just one day after 49 — and today you’re the youngest you’re ever going to be,” they remind us. What other insights can we glean from two of the most accomplished climbers of our generation?
Culture is a real estate problem
How secret poetry appreciators and others need places to act out their wild imaginings Here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s Pique back page. Exclusive to subscribers! (You can read it there at https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/opinion-culture-is-a-real-estate-problem-11557490) Kerry Dorey, Jay Molloy and I had this idea. Officially, we’re the Society of Secret Poetry Appreciators, but you should know that…
Tend the Invisible
Jasper, a year after a wildfire burned a third of the town to the ground, felt cauterized, cut off from its own vitality, as though burns had staunched overt bloodshed but left gnarled scar tissue that was hard to look at. It’s impossible as an outsider to know how the fire actually affected the community,…
Influence flows in all directions
The man on the screen has slung a hammock tent between two posts and loaded it up with bags of concrete, to show how much it can hold. He pokes his head above the mountain of mounds, the hammock defiantly taut, while a caption reads “Do not try this at home.” The Kickstarter for the…
Lisa Richardson Bylines 