My favourite discipline, practice, or routine is one that is designed to break just that.

We live in a culture that values taking action and for good reason, action trumps everything or just about everything.

Humans make tools*.

I visited the artist and blacksmith Conrad Hicks' studio yesterday. I've been interested in blacksmithing for some time now, and use it often as an…

Have you ever taken care of a baby bird? Have you done it multiple times, even though its chances of survival are slim to none?

What is the thing you need to do that will make today a good day? In other words, when you get into bed tonight and think back on today, what would make you go,

A king decided that if he knew the answer to three questions, he would always do the right thing.
Here are the three most important questions*,

When Tony Robbins asked Nelson Mandela how he survived all those years in prison, his answer surprised.

Are you familiar with a loving-kindness meditation?

I had a really crappy meditation session this morning. My mind was all over the place, I rewrote this email about 20 times in my head, did our monthly budget, rearranged about three to-do lists... 

What is your posture towards the world, how are you placed in relationship to it and everyone in it?

I'm reading Eugene Peterson's Under the Unpredictable Plant at the moment and in it, he talks about organisational growth. I'd thought I'd share the basic idea here, it is quite profound.

I once hear Lady Gaga say in an interview that she and her friends just decided one day to declare fame, that's it.

Who is it for?

Who are you making your work for, specifically?

A Jeff Buckley quote about soil to end your week. By the way, did you know that Franciscan Monks used to taste the soil before they planted a vineyard? We do not exist apart from our context.