The Midwinter of Equity Leadership
One of my spiritual practices is to sit on my front porch each morning and just be in creation. I usually offer prayers, but mostly I just watch for the sunrise and notice the birds. I notice birds a lot; but that is a subject for another day. It is winter right now. I live in South Carolina, so my winters are different than others. I have heard complaints that the mainstream national news reports too much on weather which affects only a small portion of the country. While I
Failing in Public
I don’t particularly care to make New Year’s Resolutions. I read somewhere that over 80% of people have failed to keep their resolutions by the end of February each year. That kind of failure rate gives the teacher in me the shivers! People who do keep them, typically make their resolutions “public”. I read recently that people are nine times more likely to do what they resolve to do if they will share their resolutions with others. Making it “public” does not necessarily mea
