by lori | May 1, 2020 | Acceptance, Essays, Getting Lost, Grief and Loss, Imagination, Impacts, Leadership, Learning, Learning as, Love, Play into Work, Research, Self-organizing groups, Self-organizing work groups, Story, Strength in Real Life, Unapologetically Odd, Wayfinding, Wonder
So many articles are circulating right now about how exhausted and drained people feel after Zoom meetings. I get that. Back in my corporate and academic days, that used to happen to me during Skype meetings and conference calls all the time. I’d often sign off... by lori | Jan 8, 2015 | Alzheimer's, Caregiving, Here and now, Love, Poetry, Women, Work
This just-messing-around, poetic-calisthenics poem is a tribute to the work of poet Jericho Brown: specifically, his poem Heart Condition, the first poem of his that I happened upon. Go find it. Read it. You won’t be sorry. Better yet, buy one of his books. Here... by lori | May 17, 2014 | Wayfinding, Writing
Whenever possible… 1. Write. 2. Count everything you write as writing. 3. Write everything that you write as well as you can. 4. Carry writing tools with you. 5. Journal your way through difficult times. 6. Keep your favorite bits of writing in a findable,... by lori | Feb 4, 2014 | Pirates, Poetry, Work
Work begins with fed cat on the windowsill with butt in chair Ears to be perpetually tuned to TWBS, the wind and bird station even during the big meeting especially within the mundane Good work for pirates with tied tongues and agile fingers who delight in... by lori | Jan 28, 2014 | Love, Poetry, Silly
this time love came softly in sitting with my broken heart last time she showed up with tea when I was reading she arrives beside fear to demand safe space to fully feel it and I’ve noticed you and I, friend, summon her while playing sharing a game, a...