Even the most soul-affirming work can leave us depleted and lost. Making a commitment to step away from the daily grind and listen to our "inefficiency experts" — can sustain us in the work we do and the lives we lead.
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On coming together in that space with openness and trust, and creating something greater than the sum of our parts.
What would it look like if we optimized our workplaces not for happiness, but for human wholeness?
Our daily lives are narratives we wrap ourselves in. But sometimes the grind keeps us from truly connecting with the world around us.
We need to get wiser about efficiency — about when it's a good thing, and when it saps us of the slow and messy connections that help us learn, grow, and thrive.
Do we second-guess ourselves to the point of poisoning the trust in our own abilities?
The personal growth that comes from activities we do for joy, rather than status or reward — whether it's painting murals or sprucing up cars, pick-up basketball or beekeeping.
Creating a false division between life and work has its own pitfalls.
Parker looks fondly on the moments he spent as a child with his grandfather — whose life-giving hands brought forth craft and nurtured a little boy into the world with a fierce and stoic tenderness.
The now-prevalent culture of mastery and expertise take root in ideas of grit and the "10,000-hour rule." But, doing something new for the first time, even just a little, changes your sense of it altogether.
The world as we know it is undergoing a profound transformation. Courtney Martin scrutinizes our most dearly-held defaults and finds an abundance of innovators challenging the traditional model of success.
To write is to bare your soul to a critical world. A writer reflects on the bravery to reject shame and pursue the creative crafts.
For those of us who adore our daily forms of labor, work doesn't stop when the office closes. Mohammed Fairouz makes the case for obsession, and work as prayer and mystery and play.
What we need is within us and between us. With Wendell Berry at his side, Parker Palmer on the amazing abundance of self and community, and identifying what each of us has to offer.
There are those people who know how to get ahead of the train wreck and those folks who are called to their senses after the collision has happened. But, catastrophe, too, can be a contemplative path if you choose to accept it.
Has technology failed to deliver on its promise: to lighten our load? A wry meditation on play, gratitude, and the gift of life.
It's easy to mentally sanitize and romanticize the creative process, but the real work is done in the clutter and the mess of daily living. An enconium on imperfection, self-doubt, and the importance of pushing through.
We often think of "genius" as a belonging to individuals, not as something nurtured by community. Courtney Martin challenges this idea, thinking back on the writers group that continues to inspire her work today.
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