There Is No Shortcut
Eckhart Tolle says that words can cast an almost hypnotic spell on us. “You easily lose yourself in them,” he says, “become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don’t know what it is. You have only covered up the… Read more »
From Inclusion to Accountability
I find myself talking more frequently these days about challenges with the word inclusion. This is a bit awkward, since the word is integral to my work. Share
Living Color
In May, I was fortunate to travel to Oregon, an almost indescribably beautiful state where I’d previously only spent a short weekend decades ago. I was blown away by the environmental beauty and the foresight of Governor Tom McCall who, almost 45 years ago, championed urban planning and restraints on sprawl that have yielded the… Read more »
Critical Conversations for White People
The kindest, most generous take on the brouhaha surrounding Rachel Dolezal — the former head of the Spokane NAACP chapter who resigned after allegedly lying about her race — came from filmmaker Lacey Schwartz. She said it spoke to how much we want to talk about race and racial identity in this country. The thing… Read more »