Wisdom

An Inquiry Into Intimacy

  Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.                                                          Amy Bloom In my February blog entitle “On Being Fully Human,” I wrote about three leaders, each of whom allowed inhumanity to slip into the “edges” of their lives. When I penned those words, I had not yet read Isaacson’s …

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Books to Know & Love…”I’m Still Standing”

I’m Still Standing: How One Woman’s Brushes with Death Taught Her How To Live by Kelly Standing. In the spirit of full disclosure, I know Kelly Standing…at least in small measure. She and I were cohorts at Speaker University, a wonderful series produced by the Illinois Chapter of the National Speakers Association. For that, the …

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A Message 500 Years in the Making

Note: This piece is being published in an the July-August issue of Neighbors of Batavia magazine. Reprinted with permission.   They laid the first stone April 14, 1434—three hundred and forty two years before American’s Declaration of Independence. It took 50 years just to complete the façade. Inauguration of the nave and aisles occurred in …

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Books to Know & Love: Leadership and the New Science

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World by Margaret J. Wheatley. I rarely read books more than once…at least not since my children were enthralled by Dr. Seuss! Occasionally, however, a particular book and I develop a rewarding long-term relationship. Meg Wheatley’s masterpiece and I have been friends now for more …

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