Things that make you go Hmmmm

We need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. We can achieve this only if we undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity.

An Island of Sanity is a gift of possibility and refuge created by people’s commitment to form healthy community to do meaningful work. It requires sane leaders... See more

don’t surround yourself with smarter people. Surround yourself with differently free people.

To be soft also means to be open to new encounters: to not have a fixed boundary, but a porous and negotiable one. The softness of the living is embodied in our capacity to form new relations across the thresholds of skin, cell membrane, and genetic heritage.

The boat navigating across the ocean may need those coordinates, but the surfer or even the tiny fishing vessel may care more about the waves. Mapmakers can’t see those movements; the waves do not exist. But that’s where the action is.

Your anxiety isn't just a personal struggle— it's a revenue stream.

Your depression isn't just brain chemistry— it's a subscription model.

Not every relationship survived the hall of mirrors.

Some friendships that I thought were built on solid ground crumbled when we stopped pretending that the foundation wasn't already cracked.

Some people who claimed to love me couldn't handle the weight of my unfiltered thoughts, my newly-discovered boundaries, or my refusal to shrink back into the... See more

let’s talk about patterns.

Because trust isn’t about love, loyalty, or how someone makes you feel in the moment. It’s about what they do. Consistently. Predictably. Especially when it’s inconvenient.

Trust is pattern recognition.

Not sexy. Not sentimental. But clean. And if your perception has been used against you, clean is sacred.