Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the …
Shifting Perceptions And How People Represent Systems
Several years ago, I remember standing in the line at Starbucks at 6:00 AM, with my suitcase full of papers to grade, listening to a man in line complain about the quality of our public schools. I …
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The World Does Not Revolve Around You
For more than a year we have traversed Europe but this week, gazing up at a statue of Galileo Galilei outside the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, many images blazed through my mind. I saw the violet …
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Where Are You Headed?
One year ago, this week, we found ourselves wandering the cobbled streets in Cortona, Italy without a plan. We arrived there without knowing where we were headed and we stayed there until we figured …
The Power of No
I have not only been saying no more often lately, but I have been feeling less confused about when to say yes and when to say no. It is a new experience to want to say no to something and then to …
The Power of The Experience: Memories vs Mindset
Some very close friends visited us last week. We met in Florence and reminisced about our travels and experiences from the past year. As we were leaving the restaurant, my 6-year-old daughter …
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