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Leading Through Uncertainty

Part 1: Finding Clarity The C word. Yes, the coronavirus. These are truly unprecedented circumstances. In so many ways, the disruption...

Searching for the Light in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis

Northeast Ohio: one of the regions in the U.S. most hard hit by the opioid epidemic. I spent last week in Ashtabula County and Cleveland...

There is a space...

I love the winter solstice, the shortest and darkest day of the year. It marks the changing of the season, the lengthening of the days,...

Looking ahead to 2017

2016 has been quite a year. Both on the national and global political stage, I am concerned about the dynamics that are unfolding. The...

Cuba: It's Complicated

Perhaps more so than any other trip I can recall in my life, I stepped off the plane with no sense of what to expect. Cuba, an island...

How Am I What I Am Not?

For as long as I can remember, I have known there are things I am and things I am not. For example, I have always thought of myself as a...

The Magic of a School Uniform

I have always turned up my nose at school uniforms. Perhaps because I never had to wear one myself, I have always considered them, well,...

Unveiled

Up went the veil to reveal her expressive eyes. Then it went down again, hiding her face from view. It was as if she disappeared, even as...

Oneness

We put our rafts in the water in the sweltering heat of mid-morning in the Arizona summer. Two rafts, twenty five participants, four...

Why Are You Really Here?

Why are you here? Why are you really, really here? This was one of the simple yet profound questions asked at the recent Sustainable...