What if we stopped using the loaded terms of giving and receiving and instead, started noticing that life moves back and forth. Like the sending and receiving of impulses, or like electricity that moves as a single current, waves flow back and forth, cells expand and contract, human beings flow back and forth. We human…
Read Part 1 … Once I received an actual gift of dana from someone – she actually said this is dana for you – and was practicing this form of giving. I was blown away. It came in the form of a $500.00 check over and above fees for services rendered. She was grateful for…
The season of giving is upon us. So let’s talk about generosity from the perspective of enough, of our settling in the knowing we have enough and that there is enough for a world where everyone matters. Giving is the action of generosity and it has a strong foothold in the Buddhist teachings as dana,…
As we journey down the path of living a life of enough, there seems to come a time when we wake up to everyone else’s scarcity. For me, this discovery took awhile. I’ve been really interested in myself as the subject, focusing on my own personal context, the one, we say, we have the most…
We always get to choose who to be in any moment. At a fundraiser I attended this week, the moment of choice was more obvious than it often is. In this case, my choice was between being my full adult self and contributing whatever I could from that place. Or, I could be just a…
This week we share with you a post from one of our Enough, Already course participants. Ana writes here to the rest of the cohort inside of the community exploring what is enough. Amazing how the context of our body literally creates our reality… Dear Sufficiency Sisters, So I want to presence an awareness I had…
Overfed and undernourished. This is such a good metaphor for the primary breakdown of our American culture. On a 2000 calorie per day diet, we eat food that is depleted of vital nutrients and mostly dead, over heated, over cooked, over preserved and therefore provides little or no actual nourishment. Starving in a sea of…
Nobody likes to make mistakes. But I really don’t like to make them. I have not liked to make them so much I would not even try, not publicly anyway. For years I paralyzed myself with a fear of failure, linking it to even the smallest of errors. I called it “hiding in plain sight.”…
What societal principles guide our lives? Many of course, and many that are invisible to us. The one that presses most into our lives is the cultural pace, what I like to call the societal metronome. Without any conscious choice our lives are keyed to this cultural metronome that has evolved to a rate that…
Many of us spend a lot, no really a ton, of time in meetings. During a meeting of my client’s I sat in on to observe recently, I noticed no clear requests were made and subsequently no promises either. In the debrief meeting, the first question I asked was, if there was an agenda? There…