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- 19: Becoming Sanctuary (1)
October 2021
- 13: The Wisdom of Forests and Fields (0)
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January 2019
- 26: What I’m Made Of (0)
October 2018
- 23: Are we still learning? Questions from my community (0)
- 07: Here at 48 (2)
July 2018
- 24: Why I Write (0)
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
February 2018
- 05: Defending Silence (0)
January 2018
- 23: How Do I Navigate Publishing a Book When I Know Nothing About That World? (0)
- 08: What the Blue Bird Said to Me Today (0)
October 2017
August 2017
July 2017
- 26: Shattering (0)
- 25: Playing Giant Free-Range Rubber Chicken Idea Ping Pong in the Field of Imagination (4)
June 2017
May 2017
- 29: Follow the Flowers (0)
- 24: Bitterness, Sweetness, and Bittersweetness (6)
- 15: The Invitation (Rewrite Approximately #7? I’ve Lost Count) (0)
February 2017
January 2017
- 25: What to Read Today Before the Internet Makes Your Head Explode (0)
- 17: And I Rise (0)
- 02: Irreverent and Unapologetically Odd Resolutions for 2017 (0)
October 2016
- 28: On Winning and Losing and the Space Between (5)
- 17: The Invitation (0)
- 03: Two Sentences (0)
August 2016
- 30: The Apple Tree Who Brought Enough (0)
- 27: When Will I Trust Myself? (0)
- 17: The Sun at Your House (0)
- 05: Artist Statement (0)
July 2016
- 21: Security (0)
- 17: Turning the Wheel (0)
- 07: Eight Beautiful Lessons from Late-Stage Alzheimer’s Care Partnering (2)
- 07: What the Soil Said (0)
June 2016
- 17: In Saying Goodbye (0)
May 2016
April 2016
- 30: Arlo (0)
- 27: Red Pleather Seats (0)
- 19: Dear Artist, (0)
- 12: Nursery (0)
- 07: Holy Ground (2)
- 01: A Poet’s Payment (0)
March 2016
February 2016
- 28: Somewhere Near La Conner (0)
- 15: Five Muses and a Cat’s Paw (0)
- 09: Right Here (0)
- 03: Finding Abundant Life between HELL Yeah and No at Work (0)
- 01: Artist Homes (0)
January 2016
- 14: Becoming Respite (0)
- 10: Well Rested (0)
- 05: Expert Marketing Advice Is Wasted On Me (0)
- 01: 10 Tips for Stretching Your Imagination (0)
December 2015
November 2015
- 30: What Grief Does (0)
- 19: Her Name Is Linda (0)
- 15: The I Love You Frequency (0)
- 10: What Althea Hears (0)
September 2015
- 05: This Stone (0)
August 2015
- 23: Together (0)
- 11: Welcome to the Void (0)
- 08: Letting It Be (0)
July 2015
- 28: Loving to Pieces, Autopoiesis (0)
- 08: I Break My Heart Each Morning (0)
June 2015
- 28: Our Fevered State (0)
- 10: No More To-Do Lists: And Other Joys of Turning 45 (0)
- 04: Hopscotch CD — 1.8 Miles of Fun! is This Saturday! (0)
May 2015
- 28: Talking with Neighbors (0)
- 20: needed to breathe deeply right now: choose 1 (0)
- 04: Within the Unknowing (0)
- 01: On Marrying a Poet (4)
April 2015
- 27: Becoming Magic With Her (0)
- 10: Sentience (first draft) (0)
- 06: Our Home is a Poem (0)
- 05: Almost Imperceptibly Earth (2)
- 04: content to be everything (0)
- 02: When Alien Beings Ask “Why Poetry?” I Offer Them This. (0)
March 2015
February 2015
- 11: Gunman Me (0)
- 11: Voice of a Leader (0)
- 08: From the Women Who Called Forth the Muse (0)
January 2015
- 25: Hearth Fire (0)
- 21: Family Drift (0)
- 20: Beauty Does Not Stay Down (0)
- 12: Second Wife (0)
- 11: Beside the House of Worship (0)
- 08: ALZ Caregiving Questions: How do I get family members to offer better/different support? (6)
- 08: Jericho Brown Awakens Hearts (0)
December 2014
November 2014
- 26: Winter’s Orphans Springtime’s Clowns (4)
- 25: Through the Flames, Watch for Deep Grace (0)
- 21: The Return (0)
- 18: Stop Preaching Forgiveness to the Drowning (0)
- 14: Breaking Facebook Ties with Beloved Family Members (0)
- 13: Hate Within Me Now has a 3-Minute Shelf Life (8)
October 2014
- 22: Girl’s Feet (0)
- 07: How to Greet a Seal like Eva (0)
September 2014
- 30: Noticing a Miracle (0)
- 27: The Advice of Trees (0)
- 04: Pickle Recipe (0)
August 2014
- 20: How to Be Heard by a Total Asshole (6)
- 17: What Does a Poet Do? (0)
- 11: Even Neck Deep in Shit, I’m Glad for Your Company (4)
July 2014
- 24: The Morning After (0)
- 22: Questions for the Gentle (0)
- 16: Summer Rhythm (0)
- 10: Writing After Midnight (0)
- 08: The Voice of Unease (0)
June 2014
- 23: Fear asks: why create poetry (0)
- 10: Remember As You Go to Change the World (0)
- 04: 12 Great Times to Write Poetry (0)
- 03: New Normal (2)
May 2014
- 19: Low Tide (0)
- 17: 13 steps to creating a writing-centered life (0)
- 15: Langley Love Song (0)
- 05: These Words Me (2)
April 2014
- 30: Sustained Creation (0)
- 24: The pull of springtime and the Borg (0)
- 21: Ballad of a Flirty Captain (0)
- 17: Shedding Your Old Self (2)
- 01: Gray Whales at the Beach (0)
March 2014
- 08: Under Book Covers (0)
- 04: Curiosity (0)
February 2014
- 27: Unraveling into playfulness (0)
- 19: An ode for frozen friends (0)
- 13: a poet’s work (0)
- 11: growing up on Kingston Drive (0)
- 07: If women were pirates (4)
- 05: My world has blue dragons (0)
- 04: Help wanted: poet (0)
January 2014
- 31: The day of the playful heart (0)
- 28: this time love came softly in (0)
- 23: This is my work (2)
- 15: The art of neglect (0)
- 09: The Big Nothing (4)
- 08: Here (0)
December 2013
November 2013
October 2013
September 2013
- 24: What you create joins you: nine great times to create (8)
- 19: Real superpower #1: Finding fun in all of the above (3)
- 12: Allowing space and time to embrace “I don’t know” (4)
- 06: Receiving time (0)
- 02: Finding all of me (2)
August 2013
- 29: Answering a wake-up call from yourself (2)
- 20: A Travel Guide for Transitions – now in hard copy! (2)
- 14: How to find Oddball Empire (5)
- 01: Crazy and peaceful – living as a writer (3)
July 2013
June 2013
- 21: We Are Not Strangers (4)
- 11: How do I know I’m doing the right work? (0)
May 2013
- 06: Forgiving Myself (8)
April 2013
- 18: Finding stillness in real life (2)
March 2013
- 11: Learning to dance (0)
- 05: Have you noticed? (2)
February 2013
January 2013
- 14: Deep Thought was right about 42 (25)
- 09: How to read a mind across thousands of miles/kilometers (0)
- 03: How we love (7)
December 2012
November 2012
October 2012
- 12: What does it take to create and sustain Terabithia? (6)
- 02: Isn’t it dangerous to open your home as a coworking space? (10)
September 2012
- 18: Blessed are the quirky, they have already inherited the earth (4)
- 13: 15+ signs that we’re part of slow web culture (5)
August 2012
- 30: If money is a red herring on the way to freedom, how else can we keep score about how free we are? (11)
- 18: A self-organizing group in action (11)
July 2012
- 19: What is a friendship incubator? (15)
- 13: Welcoming newcomers into a community coworking space (5)
June 2012
- 26: How can we coordinate ideas about designing reflective communities? (2)
- 20: How do we trust each other without proof? (6)
- 11: On being off balance and how it totally sucks and totally rocks (4)
May 2012
April 2012
- 30: Tapping the source of unexpected courage: community and self-organizing groups (2)
- 20: Living well as a marketing strategy: ideas from our coworking space (2)
- 11: Grady’s story: Why community makes me wag (4)
- 05: How do I know if I’m with the right group or community of people? (4)
March 2012
February 2012
- 24: 10 steps to offering free coworking in your home (14)
- 15: On the difference between community and self-organizing groups (12)
- 09: Trendsetting and the different work of grandma Kane (4)
January 2012
- 31: Healing together and trusting yourself: the power of community (13)
- 22: Community: the key to living your own story (10)
- 18: Collective Self joins SOPA/PIPA internet strike today (2)
- 09: What is community? (4)
- 03: Goodbye too-easy TV! (3)
December 2011
- 30: Collective Self’s 2011 Top 5 Top 5s (5)
- 10: Standing in the presence of courage with wonder (9)
- 06: Does familiarity decrease the happiness generated within a group? (8)
November 2011
- 29: The space between our individual, self-organizing group, and community selves (25)
- 16: Conversations with Ali and Bas – Observing a self-organizing group teaching itself (4)
- 11: What do community, self-organizing groups, and individuals do for our planet? (25)
October 2011
- 31: Happy Halloween! (4)
- 27: 12 tips for fostering self-organizing work groups—at the very beginning (5)
- 18: What lessons are self-organizing groups teaching you right now? (0)
- 04: Six-ish life lessons from my self-organizing community (12)
September 2011
- 29: Graceful receiving and letting go: lessons from a self-organizing group (16)
- 20: Moving with and through fears as self-organizing groups and communities (6)
August 2011
- 29: Learning about myself through the doorway of self-organizing groups (24)
- 19: 10 signs you might be part of a self-organizing community (2)
- 12: What the heck is a self-organizing community? (2)
- 02: Have you seen evil self-organizing groups? (9)
July 2011
- 27: Sustaining a self-reflection practice in a chaotic world (2 of 2) (13)
- 22: Sustaining a self-reflection practice in a chaotic world (1 of 2) (0)
- 07: SOGs decrease pointless anger and increase learning from anger (0)
June 2011
- 22: Five things my self-organizing groups taught me this week (0)
- 04: Do you receive chicken-and-waffles-level joy from your work? (7)
May 2011
- 31: For Cathy: what I’m learning from our self-organizing group thanks to you (0)
- 27: For Doug – early thoughts about group size, influence, and self-organizing groups (0)
- 20: Sharing my own truths: the power of self-organizing groups (0)
- 12: Goodbye Bonzai – a self-organizing group says goodbye to a critically ill member (2)
- 03: Beautiful complexity—the view from within my self-organizing group (2)
April 2011
- 25: Leadership in and near the April 2011 Seattle Glee flash mob (0)
- 22: Becoming a self-organizing group field generator (0)
- 11: Self-organizing groups increase resilience (2)
- 07: Gratitude and the perspective from within (0)
March 2011
- 30: Self-organizing trees, people, and chickens on our Hawaiian vacation (0)
- 15: Work-life integration: a benefit of self-organizing groups (0)
- 09: 7 tips for rapidly fostering self-organizing work groups (2)
- 03: How do self-organizing groups make decisions? (2 of 2) (0)
- 01: How do self-organizing groups make decisions? (1 of 2) (0)
February 2011
- 22: In with both feet (0)
- 09: Sustaining a large self-organizing group for 20+years (2 of 3) (0)
- 06: Sustaining a large self-organizing group for 20+years (1 of 3) (0)
- 01: Find your next self-organizing work group using these four indicators (0)
January 2011
- 26: Organizational benefits of self-organizing groups (2 of 2) (0)
- 19: Organizational benefits of self-organizing groups (1 of 2) (0)
- 07: What is a self-organizing group? (18)
- 04: Top 10 personal benefits of being part of self-organizing groups (0)
December 2010
- 29: How to guarantee that your self-organizing group is successful (0)
- 07: What I learned from the umbrella/singing-in-the-rain flash mob Saturday (6)
- 01: Why do self-organizing groups form? (0)
November 2010
- 17: How do self-organizing work groups sustain themselves? (4 of 4) (0)
- 09: How do self-organizing work groups sustain themselves? (3 of 4) (0)
- 05: What I learned at the impromptu SU flash mob today… (2)
- 02: How do self-organizing work groups sustain themselves? (2 of 4) (0)
October 2010
- 26: How do self-organizing work groups sustain themselves? (1 of 4) (4)
- 21: What have your self-organizing work groups taught you about yourself? (0)
- 15: Can a small work group at the bottom really change the system in spite of all structures in place to stop them? (0)
- 12: Do individual learning styles still matter? (0)
- 06: Since I can’t plan self-organizing work groups into existence, is there anything that I can do to foster them? (0)
September 2010
- 30: Are there any personal attributes that the ideal self-organizing work group members should have or do they really embrace just about anybody? (1)
- 22: What does it feel like to let go of a self-organizing work group? (0)
- 14: What does leadership look like in and near self-organizing groups? (0)
- 07: How do I know when to let go of my self-organizing work group? (0)
August 2010
July 2010
- 28: How do I evolve a group into a self-organizing work group? (0)
- 14: Should outputs be expected from self-organizing work groups or does that pressure discourage the organic growth of them? (0)
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
- 28: Learning from Learners as Learners (0)
- 13: Will self-organizing work groups work in my environment and organization? (0)
- 05: Why do people resist change even when they know that what they are currently doing is hurting themselves, their team, or their organizations? (2)
March 2010
February 2010
- 24: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (8 of 9) (0)
- 03: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (7 of 9) (0)
January 2010
- 28: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (6 of 9) (0)
- 20: I need a self-organizing work group community of practice (2)
- 06: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (5 of 9) (0)
December 2009
November 2009
- 20: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (3 of 9) (0)
- 05: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (2 of 9) (0)
- 03: Recognizing Self-Organization at Work (1 of 9) (0)
October 2009
- 22: Aren’t other forms of human organization faster at achieving change in organizations than self-organizing work groups? (0)
- 12: Recommended reading for those studying self-organizing work groups in organizations (1)
July 2009
- 28: Definition of Self-Organizing Work Group (6)
- 22: Brave New World (0)