Archive for May 2022

Several years ago at a conference, a colleague introduced me to a simple gratitude practice. It’s so simple, I’ve kept it up for at least five years. I keep a calendar/journal and at the end of the day, I list three things I’m grateful for at that moment or from my day. Big, small, new,…

May is usually a lovely month in most of the continental United States. This year it’s been a bit unusual. Here in central Texas, it was nearly 100 degrees most of last week though this week it’s only in the upper 80s thanks to a front that also brought snow to Colorado. But that variability…

The idea for today’s essay began with Seth Godin’s blog post on Tuesday. Then as I explored the idea he presented, I wandered through the arts and business and education and sociology perspectives. You’ll see those explorations in the resources section. I was intrigued by Godin’s idea of sharing, but ended up in a different place…

I’ve counted them up and I’ve attended more than one hundred graduation ceremonies. These include both my brother’s and my graduations from kindergarten, both daughters’ graduations from middle school where the same speaker was in the running for worst graduation speech ever (she was replaced), multiple high school graduations and so many graduations for the universities…

Over the next few weeks and into the month of June many of you will have the opportunity to attend one, or more, perhaps many more, graduation ceremonies. And toward the end, after the speeches are done, after the names have been read or in really big universities, each college has been recognized, the degrees will…