I passed the torch at CPA this week. The feelings are wonderful and… remind me of paradox. New invitations, recognition feel simultaneously spacious, and also weighty. Which brings me to mystery and some mystagogy. I start by reflecting on this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke: “In spite of all the farmer’s work and worry, he can’t reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.”
I learned corporations were the problem. Then I realized I was complicit. My turmoil began, then my transformation. I hint towards a couple steps you can take too.
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Two realms of our economic lives, but often we don’t understand how mutuality and market exchange can help us navigate our decision-making. I synthesize Emilio Travieso’s summary of Stephan Gudeman to offer us a new framework.
Loving us into a new understanding of Family. Maria Luisa was consistently building our notion of family. From the way she raised her son Mel as a single mother in close relationship to other Gaston sisters and cousins to the way she became Tia and Abuelita to dozens of young women at College of St. […]
I believe that stories change the world.The stories that we tell ourselves.The stories our culture feeds us.The stories that we tell our kids. Once in a while, a new story breaks through.Sometimes it even sticks in the back of my head.It does it’s quiet work there.It unconsciously shapes me. When I read Audacious Ignatius, the […]
Where do you start when somebody you look up to so much suddenly slips away. Patrick or “Primo!” as we affectionately called each other was the cousin who I shared the most with. In that spirit, here are 5 exhortations I think Patrick might have for us today as we seek to honor him. Write […]
I believe you have a hunch about your most important project. The one that if it really succeeds could really make a difference. It could contribute to something extraordinary. I’m writing because I want to invite you into a caring community that has also glimpsed this part of themselves and knows they need more support […]