I love to end the year with my students by studying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. It’s a unit about personal growth, and change, and challenges, and transformation, and death and rebirth . . . and maturing. In the early stages of the Journey we typically see “the hero” as naive. We define that as often …
Category Archive: Growth
Apr
07
The Tao opportunity in Wisconsin
Once, there was a farmer. He might have lived in Wisconsin, or he might have lived in China. I don’t think it matters much. The important thing is, the dude didn’t have much money. I mean he had to plow his fields with an old horse. One afternoon, while working in the field, the horse …
Mar
14
Got Power?
Lots of people are upset. That fine, for now. There’s time for that. The story awakens passions, lights fires, awakens giants. And that’s healthy. As long as you remember . . . there is no power in drama. You can march and shout and bang drums. You can make signs and slogans. You can chant …
Mar
13
–Lewis Carroll
“There is no use trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Mar
07
My good neighbor, Representative Erik Severson
You know? I think I’m starting to come around. I recently received another semi-personal-mass mailing . . . okay–it was a form letter. I’ll admit it. Still, it was a letter, right? I mean, sure. Maybe it was a little vague, and it didn’t really address some of the real deep concerns many of us …
Jan
05
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