“That’s me getting screwed, but really …we take turns because when I feel screwed I end up passing it on.” Circle of Moral Concern: Whose Lives Matter? For want of a better term, let’s refer to those you feel obligated to protect as being inside your circle of moral concern. No one can tell you […]
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.” From a distance, storytelling also seems to have every man’s wish on board. There is an initial euphoria when you consider that once you learn how to tell stories that alter perceptions, conclusions, and actions you might become captain of all the ships and invent
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I had taken an early morning flight from Sydney to Melbourne and while I don’t really like orange juice I was bored. So I peeled back the silver foil and drank from the plastic cup on my tray. Later that day a radio announcer caught my attention with a public health announcement that “all travelers on flight
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New Hampshire is cold in March. I was happy to be heading home to North Carolina. The shuttle driver was napping behind the wheel. The sunshine warmed him through windshield. When I opened the passenger door he stirred, “Thanks for waking me up!” He pointed. “Open that sliding door – that’s it, behind you – and
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I’d love to hear what you think about this podcast. I share a story of an early experience of sexual harassment and the ways I’ve rewritten and replaced shame stories that left me frozen so I learned how to stay present and protected when it happened again. Today I genuinely feel like I can call out bad behavior without getting triggered so badly I
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“I think it’s because the dominant story in our culture is one that creates a feeling of powerlessness, and it starts with this reductive understanding of human nature.” Francis Moore Lappe This is from the woman who wrote “Diet for a Small Planet” back in 1971. That book started a conversation that is now a vital movement
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