Where I live, summer has about five weeks left on the calendar, but one week left in real life before kids head back to school and we all get back into fall routines. It’s an in-between time, and a season when my heart especially goes out to families anticipating big changes as their kids move into new stages (and parents are expected to adjust accordingly).
Continue reading “Reimagination”Hope is a Muscle
“Every wise and graceful life I’ve encountered is a life marked by hope”
~ Krista Tippett
In her Aspen Ideas session with Jason Reynolds called “Hope is a Muscle,” On Being podcast host Krista Tippett said that hope requires imagination because it represents an insistence that the world does not have to be this way.
Continue reading “Hope is a Muscle”My Imagination Pit Crew
My friend Alex Hagan is fun and quirky and brilliant. I wish we lived closer together. And today, I would rather you read what he’s writing than what I’m writing. Here are a few nuggets from a recent post of his:
“A scenario isn’t a prediction, but rather a plausible piece of fiction…[and] even a plausible fiction about the future can profoundly shape your choices right here and right now.”
Continue reading “My Imagination Pit Crew”Take Action
In this fourth part of our five-week series on navigating transitions I’m calling Be a Taker, I’m offering a series of tools to help you Take Action. Action is motivating, and when we are feeling untethered by change, having a few simple things to try doing can be really helpful. Here you go!
Continue reading “Take Action”Imagination over Resolution
“We cannot create what we can’t imagine.” ~ Lucille Clifton
Writing a new year’s post on January 6 seems fitting this year, as I’m easing into 2025 rather than running headlong into it.
I would normally be writing about my guiding word of the year (it’s “rooted”), but honestly, my 2024 word didn’t stick at all, to the point I needed to refer back to last year’s early January blog post to remember what it even was (“expansive” that kept autocorrecting to “expensive” — both were true)!
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