Category: Idea Sharing Adventure Blog Posts
Hello! This week I simply want to share with you my favorite wisdom drop from Black Elk. Black Elk is the most famous Lakota wichasa wakan (holy man or medicine man) of the twentieth century. He came of age before the reservation era, when the Sioux tribes were strong, prosperous, and free. Black Elk was…
READ ARTICLEIn my last post we discussed how change is created. It’s an inside job. We become what we wish to see. The outer world is a mirror, projecting back what we carry with us on the inside. One of my favorite spiritual writers is Alice O. Howell. I came across her work a decade ago….
READ ARTICLEChange. It’s one of life’s constants, and one of the few guarantees that can be made to all humans. Although our Universe is in constant motion and flux, change management is rarely taught, or even discussed. What’s required for humans to engineer change? How do we become thoughtful agents of positive change? I’ve given these…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #48 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Given all the work that goes into enhancing the human experience, why isn’t humanity advancing faster? Perhaps it’s because there…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #47 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. For centuries scientists, spiritualists, and philosophers have attempted to discover the center of all that is. The sun revolves around…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #46 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. When our company first began learning about lean manufacturing practices, we worked with a talented consultant named Lisa Westberg. As…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #45 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. In 2001 nineteen militants associated with Al-Qaeda hi-jacked four airplanes and brought society to a sudden halt. In 2008 the…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #44 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. There is a metamorphosis playing out across human history that’s hard to see because it’s exceptionally slow. We are transitioning…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #43 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I have a friend and mentor by the name of Deborah Dooley. She is a clinical psychologist and evolutionary astrologist…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #42 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. No one should be judged by the date, time, and place of their birth. The house we are born into…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #41 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Imagine a scene from a totalitarian regime rally in a great square before an imposing granite capital. The entire gathering…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #40 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. The current state of American political discourse has a negative impact on society’s ability to engage in productive dialogue and…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #39 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. It is delicate to not be Indian and yet write about Indian Country. Only Indians should speak for Indians is…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #38 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. What do you do while you are at Pine Ridge? This is a question I often receive back home in…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #37 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. During the COVID-19 pandemic I once heard someone rhetorically ask, What if we are the virus? It was a hypothetical question….
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #36 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I remember how I felt the first time I realized that genocide was part of the American story. It was…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #35 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I have read and heard that the American Dream is dead. With this pronouncement comes the suggestion that it was…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #34 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. Time is more than just an opportunity to be productive. This understanding is a gift I brought home with me…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #33 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. I once helped the Oglala Sioux Tribe build a home in a reservation community near the Nebraska border. Our company…
READ ARTICLEBelow is Whisper #32 from my latest book, 48 WHISPERS, which is a collection of photographs and personal meditations created across a decade of travel to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the surrounding northern plains. If you read a news report summarizing the challenges at Pine Ridge you might well conclude that the situation is…
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