The Quiet Pull Toward Something More Hi Reader, As we move toward the fullness of summer, I find myself paying attention to what has quietly been stirring beneath the surface these past few months. Not dramatic, fully formed plans.Not perfectly mapped-out visions for the future. It's more of a feeling. A tug. A restlessness. A growing awareness that something no longer fits quite the same way it once did. Or perhaps it's a longing for something more meaningful, more creative, more alive. Many...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Your Life is Not a Problem to Solve Hi Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a familiar pattern showing up in many of my client conversations. It often begins with a simple but weighty question: “What should I do next?” From there, it’s easy to move quickly into problem-solving mode -- mapping out options, researching roles, comparing paths, trying to figure out the "right" answer. The focus narrows to which job, which direction, which decision will finally bring clarity. And yet,...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Who Am I Becoming Now? Hi Reader, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been struck by how unpredictable this season has felt. One day it’s 80 degrees and full of light… the next, snow, dark clouds, or heavy winds roll through. Even here in the mid-Atlantic area, the swings have been dramatic -- warmth, then cold, then storms, even tornados, that seem to come out of nowhere. In some ways, it feels like a reflection of the larger moment we’re living in. There is so much happening in the world right...
4 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Last week I offered a reflection for Well for the Journey's Well Being Wednesday that explored a question that feels especially relevant in our times: What if fragmentation is not the deepest truth about us? Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Letter From A Birmingham Jail wrote: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Even when life feels divided…even when relationships feel...
4 months ago • 1 min read