The Costs Of Risk Avoidance

Among the best-known quotes about risk is this observation by author, Anais Nin: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more powerful than the risk it took to blossom.” We humans have spent so much time protecting our assumptions of safety that we have often lost sight of […]

David Whyte On Poetry As A Life Saver

A few years ago, I had the privilege of hearing poet, David Whyte, speak. He has made it his life’s work to get poetry to as many people as possible because it’s such a life saver. Whyte is Welsh, and he has a wonderfully deep baritone voice that one could listen to all day and […]

Your Individual Relationship to Security

Our minds are reeling and our heads spinning over the state of our economy. We hear pundits talking about terrifying things from deflation to the end of capitalism. All the while, each of us is dealing with our own individual relationship to security. Not “security” in the policing sense of the word, but “security” as […]