Welcome to my new blog
For several years I have been blogging on my book’s website: Storycatcher.net. Now that we have brought the book site inside my company’s website: www.peerspirit.com, I am restarting the blog with expanded focus. Look here for storycatching, journal writing, circle process, and the lessons of deep immersion into nature. If we are doing it through PeerSpirit, I’m mostly likely writing about it. I look forward to hearing your voices in response, to being in dialogue and connection.-
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Category Archives: storycatching
Blogging on a Friday night
It’s a glorious sunset after a cloudy day. I lower the window blinds and try to settle into my thoughts. One week in April: I paid my taxes, had a birthday, walked the dog, got my hair cut, went to … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston bombing, personal reflection, power of story, world event
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Talking with Strangers
I was raised by two gregarious parents who felt entirely comfortable engaging total strangers in conversation, thereby changing them from strangers into acquaintances, and sometimes, into friends. I have no particular memory of this as a child, no moments of … Continue reading
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A Tango of Methodologies
We have a handout we often use when introducing Circle to new folks: it shows a tree whose roots are marked “Circle” and whose branches illustrate the modern adaptations of this ancient social form. We are more and more making … Continue reading
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Rest stop
Grey winter’s day, driving down the Interstate between Seattle and Portland, on our way to a consulting job. Temperature hanging in the low-40’s F, (about 6-7 Centigrade), yet a high sky, so we were catching glimpses of big mountains running … Continue reading
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A little love goes a long way
My friend Harriet is 86 the end of this month. She’s a member of a group of women friends who support one another’s spiritual journeys, stay in various levels of connection during busy schedules, and meet once a year for … Continue reading
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Wintergreen: New Year’s Day on Whidbey Island
I have a friend who tells me, “What you do on your birthday sets the tone for the year.” It’s not my personal birthday, but it is the first day of a New Year… so happy birthday 2013… and here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged reflection & blessing
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Angels in the woods
The day was gloomy and these woods in particular, standing on the north side of the hill, do not get sun in winter and were muted into half-light. The trees grow tall or snake through one another, reaching for light. … Continue reading
The wisdom we need is in the room!
I wake at 4:30 AM from a dream in which a film crew is taking down the Europe “set”— dismantling canvas facades of the streets of Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, carefully putting the architecture into storage. Ann and I … Continue reading
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Ecology & Travel: Thoughts from the Beach
A week after the earthquake and tsunami, in the midst of the nuclear crisis at Fukushima power plant, we left for vacation, an exotic trip funded almost a year earlier by a little financial windfall. As it came time to … Continue reading
Question of the week: What Just Happened Here?
Japan. We watch the ordinary present disappear in moments. Whole towns become archeological digs–not pretty, not yet historical. Real people wandering through real-time chaos, horror and displacement. Earthquake. Tsunami. Radiation. The character of a people is shown to the world … Continue reading
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