by lori | May 24, 2017 | Acceptance, Benefits, Essays, Grace, Imagination, Impacts, Learning, Letting Go, Play and Magic, Research, Self-organizing groups, Story, Successful Groups, Writing
My mentor and friend Bernie has been told by doctors that he has a year left to live. Thanks to Bernie, I’m now aware that I—like him—have a choice here. Each new day now, actually, I have this choice: will I choose Bitterness, Sweetness, or Bittersweetness as... by lori | Jul 28, 2015 | Flash, Found-Object, Impacts, Poetry, Work
Flash poetry (created and shared online in <10 minutes) inspired by an amazingly prolific and resilient researcher friend. I turned a research abstract into a poem on the fly for him. That’s me apparently: nerdy poems on the fly, no waiting. Isn’t life... by lori | Dec 17, 2014 | Books, Impacts, Impacts, Poetry, Recommended Reading
We would like to announce the arrival of our new baby, aka, our new book, Year 1 Poet. She was born in paperback form at 2 p.m. on November 30, 2014, weighing 100 pages. She is a little genre-bender already. She tells the true story of a writer getting lost and... by lori | Aug 14, 2013 | Benefits, Impacts, Letting Go, Self-organizing groups
Bas did a really brave thing this week. And given that he is so beautifully Dutch–reserved and humble and whatever the opposite of self-centered is—he would never toot his own horn about this. But I’m an American, dammit. My friend deserves a bit of frickin’... by lori | Jan 9, 2013 | Benefits, Impacts, Recognizing, Self-organizing groups, Story, Successful Groups
Reading a human mind across great distances is easy for some. I have friends who do it all the time. As near as I can tell, we need just three things to do it: dear friends, silliness, and our true self. Pain also works, but I recommend silliness over pain when you... by lori | Jun 20, 2012 | Benefits, Benefits, Community, Impacts, Impacts, Self-organizing groups, Self-organizing work groups, Story, Sustaining
Community member Emergent by design asked this question today. Love her. Love the question too. I began writing a comment and found that my comment just kept getting longer and longer until I thought to myself “It would be rude to add a comment this long to a...