Familiar images flooded media sources yesterday as the news of Muammar Gaddafi’s death spread. My initial response: “I don’t have time for this. Between work deadlines pressing on me and my body’s seeming insistence on rest as I recover from the flu, there simply isn’t time to consider these events and then deal with . . . → Read More: Mixed blessings – a time for sober optimism?
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What a ride it has been over the past several months! How can I begin to share the graces that have been bearing fruit in my life during a long hiatus from this blog? If you read my last post from back in August, you know I am preparing for a possible move into higher . . . → Read More: Deep listening I’m enjoying some incredibly full and fruitful days with more than 70 dynamic and wonderful women leaders in higher education. Besides retreat, which I will have to get back to soon, this is another experience that is sure to yield many blog posts if I can just take the time to write them. Today, one . . . → Read More: My negotiation style…”soul-full” leadership? Until today, I have seen the word “ubuntu” only in the context of Linux distributions. What learned today from a talk by Meg Wheatley, is that it is also an ethical conept in Africa, ”I am what I am because of who we all are.” As a Sister of St. Joseph, my zeal for healing . . . → Read More: Ubuntu – not just another OS A couple of weeks ago, I shared with you my learning at a deeper level that my zeal for justice must come from love, not anger. So I got to practice applying that in a situation last week. (Lucky me…<wink>) I experienced the encounter as an abuse of power, denying a request relevant to . . . → Read More: Not just a theory anymore… During my retreat, one of a number of things that came to mind as describing God’s invitation to me came from one of our original documents, written by our founder, Fr. Jean-Pierre Medaille, SJ and published in 1672. Here is a brief excerpt from the “Maxims of Perfection”: As for your zeal, it will always . . . → Read More: True zeal or “righteous” anger? Perhaps it is a little ironic to be asking this question at a time when it takes very little in the public discourse of the U.S. to “spark” controversy. So let me be clear – that is NOT the spark I’m writing about here. Rather, I mean, what is it in your interior life (if . . . → Read More: Where’s the spark? As my brother Dave pointed out in his comment on my last post, even President Obama as a candidate in 2008 used a “gun metaphor” in response to Republican attacks, speaking of bringing a gun to a knife fight. In my opinion, here is a great opportunity for Pres. Obama to lead by example, not . . . → Read More: A new moment? As virtually everyone in the U.S. knows by now, six lives tragically ended, and one hangs in the balance because a deranged young man purchased a Glock 9 mm pistol with extended clip and proceeded to shoot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and about 20 others attending a meet and greet with their Congresswoman. My heart . . . → Read More: Grief… Happy 2011! I chuckle to think of the image of “wiping the slate clean” as a metaphor to beginning a new year, as I know slate boards in classrooms are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Still the idea of second chances and starting fresh is appealing to me as I reflect on what . . . → Read More: Celebrate mutuality |
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