Category: Leadership
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The Limits of Invincibility
I am the first to say that I have been blessed in many ways in my life. Family, friends, opportunities, work that matters—I am grateful every day. I am also grateful always for health and, I must confess, have the incredible gift of being able to take mine for granted. I do take care of…
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Expiration Dates
It was a strange and somewhat unsettling week for me. I’ve been a part of the board of my national association for more than a decade, been honored to serve in a variety of leadership roles and been privileged to express my opinions and thoughts at a level where they can, I hope, make a…
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In the Name of Love
At a national conference that I’m attending, we enter the general reception area by walking across a “bridge” that was created by putting up some pieces of chain link fence and creating a pathway that simulates that bridge. As you reached the bridge, you were greeted by a staff member who explained it was the…
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Wearing Costumes
It’s days until Halloween. Around our area there are so many homes decorated with witches and ghosts, pumpkins and devils. Cobwebs stretch from rooftops and across trees and one of our neighbors even has a set of shelves, five high, in the front yard that is filled with carved pumpkins, all lit and flickering after…
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The Ping Pong of Worries
What a strange moment in time this is, although maybe they are all strange and I am just seeing it more clearly right now. I really don’t know. Most of the time, I have my own set of worries that travel like an endless loop, cycling through my thoughts when I am not otherwise occupied.…
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The Micro and the Macro
It’s a juggling act we all wrestle with, I think. And, right now, with the world in chaos and many of us consumed by the news of war in Israel, it is hard to balance. When so many lives have been lost and so many more are at risk, how do we go forward, how…
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What Matters
I come to Sundays knowing that it’s the day I blog, the day I post something that I hope will resonate with someone else, perhaps even provide something of value, fleeting or not. The words come from my heart, my history and, of course, my reality. Today I sit with only an ache in my…
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Frankly My Dear
Likely one of the most recognizable lines from a book or film, right? “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” served as Rhett Butler’s dismissal of Scarlet O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. I’ve been thinking about those words and thinking that it would be a gift if we could each use that line—and…
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Taking Stock
It is the Jewish New Year, and I’ve spent the last two mornings in holiday services. The familiar words and melodies are ingrained, they have been a part of my life since childhood and there is a comfort in that constancy and consistency. Much can and does change but these traditions of faith carry on.…
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To Sleep?
I often say, flippantly, that “sleep is over-rated.” Of course, that is far from the truth and far from my truth. Sleep matters in all aspects of our being—mentally, physically and spiritually. It is just that, for some of us at least, sleep is hard to come by. I have never been much of a…
With a Full Heart 