R eal, fierce, and bold … determined to “get it right” and “keep it tight” U niquely equipped to stand alone, small, yet tall and strong. T hey call you an icon, the Notorious RBG, and a great diva too H ow regally you stood for “real change, enduring change” B ecause you cared enough, …
Last of our 3-part blog series Imagine how I felt … we were within 24 hours of finishing the most challenging cross-country walk I have ever taken. Our 13th and last day was just ahead. We reflected on all the rewards and outcomes we had experienced as a result of exploring the internal landscape of …
England’s famed Lake District terrain is an undulating, spectacular sight to behold. We could have easily been mesmerized off course by lingering longer than we had time for in the beauty of those magical moments. We had to consciously balance between how often we stopped vs pushing more fully into our day. Ahead there were …
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Too many of us don’t reach out to our villages – especially when we’re struggling with a challenge that we don’t know how to face. And, there are times when help is truly needed, but we hold back from asking for it. I was inspired by Aisha’s (my niece) decision to create a series entitled …
With all the face coverings, do you ever wonder who’s behind the mask? Of course, there’s the coronavirus mask and those other masks we wear. You know the ones I’m speaking of – right? We hide from others and, as strange as it may sound, we hide from ourselves too. What makes us so afraid …
Sharing my poem On Race, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for the Community Foundation’s ‘Putting Race on the Table’ forum in 2011 — on the opening night of the Museum’s first national exhibit about race in America. My poem style is patterned after Khalil Gibran’s seminal work, The Prophet. Please share as …
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Photo credit: Babajide Adeniyi-Jones Many of us have been called to the streets – whether those streets are in the cities in which we live, or in the expansive space of our being, where we truly reside. We are holding up signage declaring who and what matters. We can’t erase the past. But we can …
I paraphrased an old legend, which goes something like this: A deity wanted to encourage us to diligently search for the truth, and he pondered where to hide it. He thought about mountains, but decided no, they would easily climb to the highest peaks searching for truth. He then thought of the deepest oceans. But …
Happy Lawyer Well-Being Week! Now, how are you really feeling? This well-being initiative is a commendable effort to solve long-standing issues and challenges that apply not only to lawyers, but to other high-pressure professions. Too many of us are burning the proverbial candle at both ends. Until we explore ways to navigate the tough roads …
April is financial literacy month and this year is a huge and unexpected reminder that exposes the money management education we don’t have. The United States has some of the worst statistics in the western world. We’re not financially fit and we continue to lag behind in bridging that financial education gap. It’s time. In …
M agnificent are your powers that O rchestrate the ebb and flow of nature T eaching us that you too are a living being who H as suffered under the hands of our E rrors and outright arrogance … You wonder when we will R enew, reset and finally honor our commitment to respect You. …
What are you willing to do within the next 24 hours to influence change and transformation? The Balinese Hindu celebration of Nyepi is tomorrow, March 25th. It represents a brand-new start, a New Year. A time for silence, rituals, forgiveness and self-reflection. Nyepi is an opportunity to pray for purification of our human world, the …
My last blog Learning to Exhale was a call to action: “The breath we take in must be exhaled” … Make an extra special effort to exhale this weekend! So, here are two gifts (both at 1 minute) that will help remind you to do just that: The first one I created is called Friendship …
January is behind us. For many it has been a time of hopeful beginnings and great expectations, for others it has held a disempowering sense of overwhelm and despair. We may experience mild complaints that threaten to keep us up at night while someone else is barely hanging on by a thinning thread. There are …
For those who attended the inspiring women’s personal and leadership development retreat, The Architect & The Tree, January 10-12, 2020, the above well-known travel quote could sound a bit off the mark. But it isn’t. You see, Jackie, one of our very insightful retreat sisters, chose this statement to place on the front of the …
Most big goals take a lot more out of us than we bargain for. We want to believe we can make company targets in record time, or lose weight by the end of say, January 2020! But what does it really take to reach your target? Have you noticed how much easier it is to …
As we approach 2020, what dreams are you envisioning and what promises for change and transformation are you making to yourself? You are making them … right?! We are challenged to embrace the vision of this new decade symbolizing the endless possibilities and heightened potential that each of us is called to reach. As you …
What scares some people about retirement is trying to figure out what to do with their lives. For those who consider themselves there, it’s time to ask and answer the ‘retirement question’. Stepping out of the work force creates an in-depth, sometimes subtle look into – Who am I now? That’s when it hits some …
I recently held the smallest retreat I’ve ever facilitated in over ten years. On the one hand, you might think that size shouldn’t matter a whole lot – on the other, it could matter when a participant’s energy isn’t optimal, for any number of reasons. We are not guaranteed the responses we hope for or …
I had a ‘back down memory lane’ remembrance of my dad’s vision and impact with the International YMCA thanks to the honor of recently hosting a Tea and Conversation event in my home for the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington. In preparation, I had looked back on an article printed in 1968, in which my father …
