Making sense within chaos
At some point this week, did you imagine that you're bad at making sense within chaos right now? Did you imagine that you don't belong here? Or imagine that you don't know exactly who to trust or who you are? Or if you'
Lori Kane
I'm a writer no matter what else is happening. I love life & living beings, including humans who make up just 0.01% of all life on earth. I exist to create more playful life for earthlings as a whole.
Noticing deep & lasting beauty while your world is crumbling
We have it in us to notice deep and lasting beauty everywhere, every day, even as our whole world crumbles. And to create deep and lasting beauty, too. Here are three examples from our life here, followed by a brief conclusion during which I spend 30 seconds getting decidedly uppity
What do you do when your world is upside down?
Back when I was just starting my doc program in Educational Leadership, our faculty members took us down to the university gym for some whole-body learning. Experiential learning? I forget what it was called now–that was 20 years ago. What we learned that day has stuck with me longer
Embrace your inner dictoddler
I spent last week writing essays about how to respond to brutal, intentionally cruel regimes. I did this for friends and family who've been full of dread, or panicking, or facing real horrors of loss and displacement and violence already, and also for me. Writing therapy is real
What grief, friendship, community, and leadership—together—feel like. The reminder I needed.
I snapped at a sweet friend this week. Publicly, on his social media page. [Deep breath out, deep breath in. Continue.] I snapped at a lovely human who took his baby to the beach in another country for a few days of much-needed rest during this very painful week for