Uncategorized Wild Geese Created 4 September 2017 / Updated 24 September 2017 by adamf You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. […] Read more »
Uncategorized Grief Resources Created 3 September 2017 / Updated 17 July 2023 by adamf Here are some resources that helped me in working with grief. I wanted to find a page like this when I started out on that journey. I hope it will be helpful to someone. Grief 101 – Some Common Facts and Characteristics of Grief – really good article that has a lot of information about […] Read more »
Uncategorized Last Night As I Was Sleeping Created 3 September 2017 / Updated 8 September 2017 by adamf Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that I had a beehive […] Read more »
Uncategorized The Guest House Created 3 September 2017 / Updated 8 September 2017 by adamf This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may […] Read more »
Uncategorized The Importance of Psychological Safety on Teams Created 27 August 2017 / Updated 27 August 2017 by adamf Great article today on the importance of psychological safety on teams: Engineering a Culture of Psychological Safety, via Martin Fowler: Teams without psychological safety underperform. Here are the danger signs and routes to improve. From the article: When discussing failures, people need to feel safe to share all relevant information, with the understanding that they […] Read more »
Uncategorized Optimism as a Learned Skill Created 26 August 2017 / Updated 8 October 2017 by adamf I was talking with a colleague about optimism lately – he commented that he tends to see the worst case scenarios for each new situation. I said I thought optimism is a learned skill. We were working on a piece of software together and got stuck – we could not see a way to make […] Read more »
Uncategorized Love Dogs Created 19 August 2017 / Updated 19 August 2017 by adamf One night a man was crying, “Allah, Allah!” His lips grew sweet with the praising, until a cynic said, “So! I have heard you calling out, but have you ever gotten any response?” The man had no answer for that. He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep. He dreamed he saw Khidr, the […] Read more »
Uncategorized Running As Spiritual Practice Created 11 August 2017 / Updated 20 August 2017 by adamf Lately I’ve been interested in running as spiritual practice. I didn’t used to think about myself as a spiritual person – that came to me later in life, after I started meditating. And I only recently started running. But now somehow running is caring for my body, mind and spirit. When I run I can […] Read more »
Uncategorized Strava for Apple Watch Created 10 August 2017 / Updated 4 March 2021 by adamf I have been running a fair bit lately – both for exercise and to care for my spirit. I’ve had an Apple Watch Series 2 for some time and in general been quite happy with it. It’s not really a watch, like the iPhone is not really a phone, but more on that some other […] Read more »
Uncategorized Befriending Shadow Created 8 August 2017 / Updated 10 August 2017 by adamf Under an empty autumn sky Stretch endless wastes Where no one goes. Who is that horseman riding in from the west? –Wang Changling, eighth-century Buddhist poet The unacknowledged sides of ourselves hold tremendous power – both destructive power and creative power, sometimes both at the same time. David Richo starts his book Shadow Dance: Liberating […] Read more »