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An Artist Needs to Write Us a Better Story About the Future

March 9, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

To make the hard decisions around climate change, we need the pull of a compelling story that tells us about all the great things that will follow and the ways we’ll be rewarded when we do. Because changing the ways we live and work will be hard, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: building blocks of the future, future vision, Hope in the Dark, imagination, purpose, Rebecca Solnit, story about the tuture

Patagonia’s Rock Climber

February 19, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Some food for thought (if you find that you’re hungry for it today) from Yvon Chouinard. (He pronounces his name yuh-vaan shwee-naard if you're wondering.) Throughout, I’ll just call him Yvon, because he seems to invite that kind of familiarity with … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Being Proud of Your Work, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning, Entrepreneurship, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: an ending without fear, good work, Let My People Go Surfing, Patagonia, philanthropy, product life cycle, storytelling, Susan Cain Bittersweet, work commitments, Yvon Chouinard

We May Be In a Neurological Mismatch with Our Tech-Driven World

January 29, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Everyday on the news I hear stories about the disproportionately negative impact that some event, disease, or change in the weather has had on a particular group. It's social media’s disproportionate harming of teenage girls. How Covid-19 is more … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself Tagged With: 24/7 information, Inner Pandemic, learned helplessness, loss of agency, Matt Richtel, neurological mismatch, peer pressures, Silverklausen, Tristan Harris, undiagnosed mental illness

Reading Last Year and This Year

January 12, 2023 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week for me, and not in a good way.  It was probably RSV that took down the first three days of it in a torrent of congestion and runny nose, until I felt my old self begin to return on Thursday, only to discover while heading out … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: "deep literacy", 10 Very Best Books of 2022 Overall, Alyssa Harad, books stories and essays in 2022, civic illiteracy, Claire Keegan, Ed Yong, Eula Bliss, Gabrielle Zevin, Henry Kissinger, Jonathan Haidt, Lucas Mann, Margot Jefferson, Publisher's Lunch, Verlyn Klinkenborg

A Time for Repair, for Wintering 

December 13, 2022 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I live on a ridge that shoots in from the City boundaries in the northwest and descends, first gradually and then by leaps and bounds, as it reaches towards sea level in the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers.  At our point in this descent, a … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Daily Preparation Tagged With: Beronda Montgomery, healing, Katherine May, Lessons from Plants, repair, replenishment, resilience, seasonal lessons, seasons, trauma recovery, Wintering

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