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An Instant History of the Past Week in Ukraine

March 7, 2022 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

This week, we’ve all seen the pictures of mothers with their children and old people fumbling in distress in Ukraine—to leave the bombing, to find refuge.  Maybe because they cut so close to the bone and because we’ve seen so many similar … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Heroes & Other Role Models, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: Adam Tooze, bravery, citizen understanding of world events, context for world events, Ezra Klein, instant history, national priorities, national security costs, Russian invasion of Ukraine, security versus global warming as priority, self-sacrifice, Stephen Spender The Truly Great, Ukraine, watershed events, Western priorities

Owning Your Own Shadow

February 4, 2022 By David Griesing 2 Comments

As someone who has tinkered with the title and sub-title of his book repeatedly—the “working titles” are still Work Life Reward: The Call & Response of a Good Life At Work—I love it when any other author (or the “book title folks” at the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: Carl Jung, Donna Torrisi, golden ofetn heroic shadow, Halloween, healing power of tattoos, Owning Your Own Shadow, Renaissanc Faires, rituals of inversion, Robert A. Johnson, shodow play, Tattoo Monologues

For the Birds

January 5, 2022 By David Griesing 3 Comments

I’d be lying if I told you that the first sounds I hear when I take Wally out in the morning are bird sounds.  Instead, it’s the soft roll of tires on one of the streets that crisscross my neighborhood or urban beats booming louder than seems … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Continuous Learning, Daily Preparation Tagged With: biodiversity, biome, bird population decline, bird song, bird sounds, birds, Merlin bird app, nature

Mobs Are Like Weapons Pointed at All of Us

November 30, 2021 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

For years now, I’ve been drawn to the mind of Robert D. Kaplan. It's not that I've always agreed with him, but his insights have rarely failed to pull me in.  Maybe it's for all the reasons that I wrote last week’s post, A … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: a mob s a weapon, autonomy, Elias Canetti, freedom, Geoge Orwell, individuality, mob, mob rule, mobs, Ortega y Gasset, populism, populist, Robert D Kaplan, self-censorship, tyranny of crowd

Having a Plan Turns Bystanders into Helpers

October 28, 2021 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

“If those around him had known how to intervene to stop him, it would never have gotten to this point,” someone might have said about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently. I wasn’t expecting to write about bystander interventions today, but was … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning Tagged With: acting on plans, activating bystanders, Andrew Cuomo, bystander, bystander effect, Harvey Weinstein, planning, planning to intervene, rescue, witness

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