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Change always creates resistance and fear. As we move through this crisis, let us take the chance to re-align our focus to what's important and to what we each can do to create change, empathy, and community.
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Mimi Nicklin almost attended a conversation I was part of about empathy, but scheduling crossed wires. Being the quiet, shy person I am, I immediately got in touch with her, posted a few ideas in a post she had created, and off we went: intuition v. empathy, this Journey Became Me, the function of a 'tribe,'All growth comes from discomfort," disconnection, then some time listening with each other's stories about pain, which led her to comment that Pain needs a rebrand. She has great stories, ...
Okay, here's part of the menu of my conversation with my friend Jeff Nischwitz: Stop planning your future - you're gonna miss it. When I choose to get up from the smackdown. You ask too many questions! I'm willing to be wrong. Fierce and tender Can I just kiss your heart? Look at our behavior as a way to protect ourselves. We don't have to save people. And that's just for starters. Jeff is funny, humble, powerful and able to 'hold space' for other people in his life. He's absolutely pre...
My friend Noemi Beres (Make it Better # 98: "Up 'til Denmark") led Deb and me to hold a conversation. And how! As we each step into our day, a little foggy yet but wondering What's Up?, we are reminded how little we control of the next moment. Deb has been loaded up with some powerful episodes of cancer and change, which she recounts with wry humor and acceptance. We hold together as we walk side-by-side, virtually holding hands through a great meander. Please join us so you ...
So. Buckle your seatbelts. Jennifer Fiedler is blunt, subtle, quick, measured, a wonderful soup of contradictions and a bright light for candor and truth. We merrily dash along while playing play ping-pong. We explore the movie business (a hefty chunk of her life), family (dys)function, lessons (un)learned, all of these with no reticence or shields up. We agree that we've all had trauma, joy, and . . . you know the list for yourself. And that most often, our scars can be for...
Noemi and I travel well together. Liable to laughter, a couple of people who love to listen and reflect rather than talk at. We have a ball - she lives in Cyprus, via a life spent growing exponentially as she left and returned to Hungary. She loves language (ditto here), especially Scandinavian languages (and culture). From good girl to ring-in-nose force for growth and change, she's become a wonderful friend. Join us for topics like 'glue doesn't work in Cyprus', 'sewing my life together' (l...
Two very different and almost identical travelers, David Abel and I. We both explore and breathe curiosity. David is demonstrably ambitious, I more demonstrably gestalt. His childhood Dickensian, mine bourgeois, yet each gave birth to a hunger for experience and a reasonably ambiguous approach to normal. Signposts in our conversation turned us toward learning we couldn't hold back our own tides, being told we were 'very average,' and the insight we each felt when we realized we couldn't...
As Lauri Smith and I traveled together for about an hour, I watched in my mind's eye a slide show of my childhood. We both were fine playing alone, we loved acting out stories and episodes. Both introverts. Both shy. Both actors and performers. Both empathetic, sometimes awkwardly so. She told me about how she lost my way doing the good girl thing and how heavy the armor in front of my heart can become, at the end bringing these together around the quote attributed to Victor Frankl:&nbs...
Laurie Gardner and I share the dearth of a concept: career. We could be politely described as peripatetic, by others taken with sarcasm as short attention-spanned. Laurie has tended bar around the world, including competing and doing well in mixology competitions. He has been cabin crew for an airline, and even worked in the construction industry for starters. We cover money, 'too much truth,' being a contrarian (that's a librarian who breaks the rule of silence :), 'too nice,' psycholo...
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