Month: October 2016

With this post, I’m done my October challenge of daily writing. First, I’m happy to say that I did it! I didn’t miss a single day. I set a goal on one of my busiest months and completed it. Despite having a week long retreat, a weekend retreat, and a weekend circling immersion, I was…

I’m finishing my last day of the circling intensive in Austin. I’ve been contemplating empathy. A lot of times in circling, there’s a blurring distinction that happens between what one person is feeling and what I’m feeling. What the group is sensing and what I’m sensing. How much of it is a projection, how much…

Seeing people through the lens of compatibility includes both self and other. Often times, people go into situations focusing only on themselves or the other person. The idea of compatibility originally stuck in me when I read Mark Manson’s writings on dating and relationships. So, let’s use dating as a metaphor. Some heterosexual men focus…

I’ve been writing a lot about the leadership position of Operations I have at the monastic academy. For the most part, it’s been good. It’s a role I am good at and have done in my past jobs. But it has also started wearing me down as it has countless past residents before me. Coming…

What is rooted is easy to nourish. What is recent is easy to correct. What is brittle is easy to break. What is small is easy to scatter. Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist. The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout. The journey of a thousand miles…