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Two Books Worth Reading

September 16, 2020 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading quite a lot over the past couple of months, and want to recommend two books that have brought me immense pleasure during a challenging time. Each is noteworthy for different reasons.  The first is a page-turner that's built upon the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Heroes & Other Role Models, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: Apeirogon, colum McCann, current resonance, eric larson, existential divides, hardship, perspective, political divides, recommended books, Splendid and Vile

Extra from the Ordinary

July 19, 2020 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

For some writing that I have ahead of me, I’ve been researching how to make good use of a refuge that you’ve created from the outside world. When bad things are happening out there and they've torn you apart, how do you re-group enough to go back out … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: anticipation, Arthur Kleinman, attention to detail, celebrating details, ceremony, Charles Eisenstein, Covid19, daily ritual, marking time, mindfulness, order

How Much of a Wake-Up Call Do We Need?

July 4, 2020 By David Griesing 1 Comment

I’ve been thinking about our national death wish. I'd finally gotten around to an essay about the California wildfires in 2018 and how quickly we seemed to forget about their horrors in the year that followed. It's also because we're now in the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself Tagged With: California drought, California wildfires, civic responsibility, Covid19, failure of collective will, fiddling while Rome burns, hubris, ignore warnings, inability to act, lost opportunity, Mark Arax, Paradise fire, shared purpose, wake-up call

It’s Working That’s Essential

May 10, 2020 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Trying to identify who is (and isn’t) “an essential worker” is the wrong game to be in today. As the current upheavals are making plain: all workers are essential workers.   Everyone who wants to work in America should be able to do so because: - … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: democratic capitalism, economic policy, Edmund Phelps, essential workers, Oren Cass, social contract around work, Soshana Zuboff, work, working

The Other Wonder of Tourists and Survivors

April 5, 2020 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Hello everyone. I’m mostly holding up and hope this finds you holding up too. Recent weeks, but particularly this past one, have been like being in a foreign country while never entirely leaving the familiarity of home. I wonder if it’s been feeling … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation Tagged With: coronavirus, eyes of a tourist, other wonder, perspective

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