Category: Storytelling
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What’s In Store?
It’s Been Awhile Too long actually. The last three months have passed in warp speed. Each day seemingly filled with plenty of learning opportunities both personally and professionally. Some were easier to navigate than others, some left me scratching my head, and others required no action at all but stillness and reflection. Each situation during…
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Big Bird Leaves ‘Sesame Street’…
Did you see this headline in the New York Times? Original Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 years. FIFTY YEARS. Retirement is the time you finally get to rest. Slow down. Get out of bed later in the morning, without an alarm. Retirement the time to sit and sip a cup…
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Colorado Wildfires Summer 2018
The Weston Pass Fire near Fairplay, CO before highway 285 was closed. I was happily working on my computer while sitting outside on my deck and anticipating the start of the long weekend. Suddenly I was overcome by the intense smell of smoke nearby. Having studied wildfire science and worked in wildfire education, my first…
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Mindcamp Southwest: New Frontiers
Something tells me there’s a wealth of innovative, creative, design thinking, leaders out there. That’s you, right? If so, you might be interested in checking out a really cool creativity conference coming to Arizona March 1st-4th. It’s a four-day micro-university for personal, professional, and organizational creativity — a feast of concurrent sessions presented by the best…
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Community Farming & Young Farmers
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a farmer? Spending your days outdoors in the elements tending to the land and livestock, while growing healthy food our communities need to thrive. It sounds ideal doesn’t it? The reality is the number of famers in the United States is decreasing. There are…
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Daily Prompt: Nest
The first thing she does every morning once she’s out of bed is fill the kettle to start the coffee. Even before she lets the dogs out into the backyard. The dogs are accustomed to her morning routine by now. Admittedly she’s a coffee addict. It’s not the caffeine she desires or needs, it’s the taste.…
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Perception & Perspective
I was recently invited to lead a workshop at the 2017 Headwaters Conference at WSCU in Gunnison, Colorado. The three day long conference theme of “Science, Story and Justice” explored how language creates justice and injustices as it unfolds the diverse ways of knowing that helps us to understand the world. The day long workshop I offered…
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