Writing
What Seeds Are You Planting? The Care and Feeding of Pollinators
Plant safety and curiosity to nurture human pollinators, then harvest creativity.
Slow Down to Speed Up
Are you always moving forward, pressing on, pressed for time, trying to finish one thing so you can move on to the next?
What Seeds Are You Planting? Black Walnuts and Other Beautiful Antagonists
Like antagonists in the plant world, brilliant jerks need to be ethically managed, for everyone’s sake.
What Seeds Are You Planting? Nurturing Gratitude
How do you express your gratitude for your unsung, quiet but essential teammates?
Coming to Our Senses | How Birdsong Impacts Emotional Intelligence
Our ambient soundscape matters … read on to find why.
Coming to Our Senses | What’s Your Soundscape?
If you live in a city, the anthrophone – or man-made urban soundscape – is not good for overall well-being.
Human Becomings and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Self as process: we adopt identities as we go, partial and at times useful, but potentially imprisoning when they become part of a self-limiting story of who we are.
What Seeds Are You Planting? Cultivating Patience in an Impatient World
To quote the Tao Te Ching, “Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?”
How Do You Nature?
Interacting with nature on a routine basis restores resilience and supports creative problem solving.
This Earth Day, Change Your Perspective
Astrophysicists tell us that the material in our body has been through countless cycles of creation and destruction.
Fast Brain, Slow Brain | In Memory of Daniel Kahneman
Training our minds to slow down can foster creativity and enhance intuition.
Of Bluebirds, Neural Pathways, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Ever find yourself fighting with an old version of you? The smart one, the victim, the one who gets it done, the people pleaser?
Opposable Thumbs, Neural Patterns, and Creativity
Which pathway will you choose: awareness or unawareness?