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?
Category: pique column
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.
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:…
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…
It’s not your fault that you are not flourishing, Mama.
I’m lying awake at 3am and I can’t stop thinking about “Anonymous member”, the mother of two school-aged kids in our community who has posted on the Parents forum: “I’ve started and stopped this post so many times. But I’m getting to a point where I just don’t know what to do and doing nothing…
Get Engaged
I had a flash of cold clarity: is this the phone call that changes the rest of my life?
Monarchy is weird (pls god save us from any more kings)
As historians of authoritarianism and brave journalists are telling us—your joy matters, community matters, refusing to obey in advance matters, vigilance matters. God save us from kings and king wannabes. Go find true majesty and ordinary courage and proclaim it.
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