March 20, 2017
Withholding – Part 1
You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. From The Prophet on Giving, Khalil Gibran We practice, in the Essential Experience Workshop, delivering what we call “withholds.” Many graduates take this […]
December 26, 2016
Election Feelings
I find it hard to write about anything but the election, even now, a bit more than a month since it ended. I still feel, in waves, my sadness, my fear and my anger. My own experience was that, right after the election, we had the workshop. For me, that meant that, whatever I was feeling, I needed to surrender […]
October 24, 2016
Political Conversation
On the first day of classes this fall, I asked the students in the Moral Foundations course I teach to introduce themselves. In addition to announcing their year and their major, I asked them to say just one sentence about the elections that our country has been in engaged in for many months. Most of them said something about how […]