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Well, here it is again – New Year! So often we create a list of resolutions at this time of the year – so often they represent a super-to-do-list – and so often we lose passion for our commitments as the year progresses. As all readers familiar with my work will know, a cornerstone of [...]
I have the feeling that we are leaving one era and entering another. For nearly a decade we have witnessed an extraordinary level of personal fear in our society, with roots deeply embedded in the psychology of alarm, dread and violence. For religious leaders, marketers, politicians and corporate leaders alike – not to mention terrorists [...]
From time to time, readers and friends of this blog submit items for inclusion and I welcome them. If you have an item to contribute, please send it to info@secretan.com. This contribution comes from Shonnie Lavender, my friend and member of the Secretan Center Faculty. She has written this brilliant poem that illuminates the CASTLE [...]
I don’t cry often-once every ten years perhaps. But I am crying today as I write this blog-easily the toughest I have ever written. Many of you will have met Spirit, the Wonder Dog or know of her. She has been a part of Tricia’s and my life for 14 years and four months. And [...]
I came across this mention of our work on a blog recently published by Hark Up Ministries. The writer first quotes from my writing, then makes a very interesting point: “Strong relationships are inclusionary; that is, they seek to embrace rather than repel, compete, or exclude. Organizations, of any kind, cannot be relevant if they [...]