“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” — Albert Einstein Things can be simple and easy if we let them. Also living and learning the lessons that expand our horizons have a touch of complexity as well. Decisions are not always binary: Yes or no....
“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.” — Sterling K. Brown My writing about not retiring and becoming a...
“In case you’re worried that you’re too oldto pursue your dreams,Frank Lloyd Wright completed 1/3 of his life’s workbetween the ages of 80 and 92.” — Unknown On Memorial Day this year, the organization that I founded celebrated its 37th...
“When we were small children, we all played dress-up and everybody had a good time. So why stop?” — Iris Apfel The conversations I am having about the concept of being ‘unretired’ are stirring up all sorts of trails of thought to follow. I realized during...
“Fight for the things that you care about,but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg I am and am not a joiner of groups. I like to facilitate groups and love being in a community. However, you might find this surprising...
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the constants of life is that there will be many lessons to be learned. And many opportunities to learn them....
“I learnt lessons at every step of life.COVID-19 pandemic was the examination.And Innovation will be the new normal.” ― Omkar More I don’t have the answers, but I do have many questions and observations. Perhaps we can discover some solutions together. We have changed...
“When the sun and the moon cycles come together, that’s been a really important moment for many civilizations.” — Tok Thompson I was standing on the shore of Lake Erie with friends and neighbors when the moon blocked the sun, and the noise grew quiet. I can still feel...
“His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.” — Richard Mitchell,“Less Than Words Can Say” Words and experiences aren’t in your lexicon until you run across them. Many...
“The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence.” — Jennifer Weiner I have a reputation for being persistent. It is an important quality in my life. I think living through...
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” — Steven Spielberg A colleague invited me to speak to her class of college juniors and seniors who were practicing...
“The harder we worked to convince each other that our way was the right way,the further away we got from understanding each other.We were pulling apartinstead of pulling together.” — They Just Don’t Get It,” p 97 I am a practitioner at heart. What do I...
“I can do anything I set my mind to.Watch me.” ― Pippi Longstocking • Is there a message from a childhood book that is seared into your brain? While reading a colleague’s post about leadership, what danced into my head was the very memorable phrase from the...
Aging gracefully is an art, Aging disgracefully is an Absolute Blast! — Unknown Here is a statement for your imagination: Can you imagine sixteen, mid-life women, who don’t know each other, traveling from all corners of the United States, living together, and...
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