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I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a bit jarred. After more than a year of talking about how to begin gathering again, how to make it meaningful, how to take meaningful steps toward a healthier balance…after that year, my world has thundered back into a busyness that looks […]
I never do a retreat without this game now.
What’s your personal purpose statement? I’ve worked in the past on developing a purpose statement for my ensembles. Here’s where I landed for the Aces: To make high-level genre-agnostic music with tenors and basses from Rockford HS and share it with people through performance and recording, such that (A) a […]
2021 started and ended with huge rises in COVID spread. It’s tempting to say that it was 2020 all over again, but it was palpably different. With vaccinations and more knowledge about effective mitigation, we were able to do a lot more normal things, even as we missed out on […]
I wrote and published every day in 2021, with my streak now standing at just over seven uninterrupted years. This year, I wrote a little over 75,000 words – 6,000+ per month, or around 200 per day. In the midst of that, I also was able to take the entire […]
It’s time to talk about gathering. There’s no better source for rethinking gatherings than the amazing book The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker. I reread it last month in preparation, and am writing a series of blogs next week examining each chapter and what it has to say about […]
If you’re like me, you’re thinking a lot about what our gatherings will look like in the fall? Will it be “normal”? What will be different? And will the changes in your gatherings be because external forces cause changes (as they did in 2020 and 2021) or because the grand […]
Books remain at the heart of the media I consume – not perhaps the most significant by volume, but certainly by the effect they have on my life. I completed 27 books in 2018; I think a book every two weeks is a solid total, but I do hope to increase […]
Personal Bibliography: Leadership Click here for my complete Personal Bibliography. Brown, Brené. Braving the Wilderness. The theme of true belonging in this book speaks to the kinds of communities I’m trying to build. Brown, Brené. Rising Strong. The approaches to resiliency Brown describes in this book are vital both as […]
There are people who say “I don’t read books.” Let’s not discuss them. There are some readers who say, “I don’t read nonfiction.” To them I say, you are missing so many opportunities to get the best ideas, condensed and made accessible to you. You’re letting someone else do the […]