Maskuerade
With all the face coverings, do you ever wonder who’s behind the mask? Of course, there’s the coronavirus mask and those other masks we wear.…
Category: Inspirational
A Remembrance: Mozella’s poem On Race at the Smithsonian National Museum
Sharing my poem On Race, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for the Community Foundation’s ‘Putting Race on the Table’ forum in 2011…
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
Photo credit: Babajide Adeniyi-Jones Many of us have been called to the streets – whether those streets are in the cities in which we live,…
Searching For Truth
I paraphrased an old legend, which goes something like this: A deity wanted to encourage us to diligently search for the truth, and he pondered…
Lawyer Well-Being Week
Happy Lawyer Well-Being Week! Now, how are you really feeling? This well-being initiative is a commendable effort to solve long-standing issues and challenges that apply…
Introducing Wealth Literacy
April is financial literacy month and this year is a huge and unexpected reminder that exposes the money management education we don’t have. The United…
An Apology to Mother Earth
M agnificent are your powers that O rchestrate the ebb and flow of nature T eaching us that you too are a living being who…
Nyepi
What are you willing to do within the next 24 hours to influence change and transformation? The Balinese Hindu celebration of Nyepi is tomorrow, March…
My Jazz Poetry Audio Gift for You!
My last blog Learning to Exhale was a call to action: “The breath we take in must be exhaled” … Make an extra special effort…
Learning To Exhale
January is behind us. For many it has been a time of hopeful beginnings and great expectations, for others it has held a disempowering sense…
Put Down The Map and Get Wonderfully Lost!
For those who attended the inspiring women’s personal and leadership development retreat, The Architect & The Tree, January 10-12, 2020, the above well-known travel quote…
The Long-distance Footpath
Most big goals take a lot more out of us than we bargain for. We want to believe we can make company targets in record…
Rise in 2020!
As we approach 2020, what dreams are you envisioning and what promises for change and transformation are you making to yourself? You are making them…
The Withdrawing Room
What scares some people about retirement is trying to figure out what to do with their lives. For those who consider themselves there, it’s time…
To Be or Not To Be …
I recently held the smallest retreat I’ve ever facilitated in over ten years. On the one hand, you might think that size shouldn’t matter a…
The Expansive Power of Vision
I had a ‘back down memory lane’ remembrance of my dad’s vision and impact with the International YMCA thanks to the honor of recently hosting…
Choose
Choose is a powerful verb. We are choosing all the time. The problem is often the BIG choices we must make. Yes, that one! It’s…
Staying on the Path!
Yes, it’s that time of year where many of us – even if secretly – are placing our walking sticks on the ground – setting…
The Glass Bowl
If our lives were like a glass bowl, we would be able to clearly see within. What would you change? It often takes courage to…
Discover You
Whether I am sharing my Rise To The Challenge or It’s Possible messages in the Washington, D.C. area, Lagos, London, Nairobi or Bangkok, women have…