A Wild Goose Moment

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.                                                                    -Howard Thurman My friend Harriet and I trudge across the clay

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If God Speaks

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner IF GOD SPEAKS anywhere it is into our personal lives that he speaks. Someone we love dies, say. Some unforeseen act of kindness or cruelty touches the heart or makes the blood run cold. We fail a friend, or a friend fails

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humble beginnings

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Our exploration of the inner workings of Cumulative Advantage starts in 1968 with a Columbia University professor named Meyer Robert Schkolnick  Meyer was born into a poor family of Russian Jews who had immigrated to

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