300 words a day

God. The year is halfway done.The calendar year, anyway. Almost, anyway. And some of us can barely remember the beginning of this year. There has been death or diagnoses,there has been over-commitment or under-valuationof our ideas or belongings or energy or selves. There were more good intentions than capacity to follow through. We are weary, […]

God. It’s been a long week. We know that it’s been exactly the same 168 hours that every week has, but you know that the feeling of time is different than the counting of time. You know that minutes spent waiting for answers are longer than days spent living with the answers. Paul talks about […]

Specificity counts. Though I may say the same thing to every family who has lost a loved one, it counts that I say it to each family. And in my best moments, though I say things to all the people in the room, it often matters that I speak to each person in the room. […]

Rich Dixon is reflecting on celebration: +++ Last time, I told you about some cheerleaders, inspired by this quote: Let’s try to speak words that rebuild the torn-down places in others. Don’t know about you, but I’m grateful for the cheerleaders in my life, the folks who speak words of kindness and encouragement into my […]

If you were starting today to teach people to grow vegetables, what would you do? That’s not a complicated question, I don’t think. Planting vegetables involves preparing soil, planting seeds, watering, weeding, harvesting. But we get confused about the teaching part. What technology do we use? How many lessons? How much of a professional do […]