It's A Process: Recent Episodes
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We were on our way to somewhere. Traveling in a large RV through the countryside, we watched the sun dip below the horizon, and the bright greens of summer slowly become shades of black. I looked down to see the gas gauge floating at half-full, and I had not seen a gas station for miles. […]
Two fragile souls, forged and reformed, strong and weak in places different, still fractures feel harmoniously aligned. Spontaneous uncertainty, both overwhelms and calms, a heart racing, a brain endeavors constraint. An arm, taken a gloved-hand held, heat felt, a fire starts gentle first kisses, life plans are made again. Quiet intensity, held close breaks free again, overwhelming a cautious […]
I have always been interested in photography, and many of the earliest pictures of me show me with a camera. Whether it was the Kodak Duaflex III that belonged to my dad or the Instamatic-X35 I received as a gift just before my 6th-grade safety patrol trip, I loved the idea that I could capture […]
The work I do causes me to think a lot about how and why culture changes, how businesses change to respond to cultural change and how we, as individuals, adjust engagement and consumption behavior in reaction to an external disruption–that change in our normal state–when it is forced upon us. Throughout my career, I have […]
The boy, determined confidence, a bundle of energy, buzz-cut cowlicks highlight quirkiness only a child can embody. The teenager, empowered, in creative communities, artistic and musical, shy and reserved one-on-one, afraid of appearing foolish. The father, loving and sentimental, touched to tears often, children grown desires to protect appear controlling, hard to let go, but […]
I watched you grow for nearly a year, three hundred fifty-seven days to be exact from conception, stretching, then growing, then stretching again, showing yourself more and more with each iteration. Your birth brought warm hugs and toothy grins from your new family and I, from a distance, watched for signs of your distress, quietly […]
I sat with you, exposed and aware of the darkness and light passing between us, like two notes an octave apart playing harmony I alone heard at once misaligned and in unison. Carried by the quiet ebb and flow of your voice I traveled with you through time, told by stories and poems of your […]
I originally wrote this essay in February 2009 for Scout Sunday and shared the excerpt below on my business blog September 11, 2010. In 2011, I decided to make this an annual post in remembrance. Every trip I have made to New York since 2002, I go down to the WTC site and pay my […]
For most of his life, dad has put the needs of everyone else above his own. My sharing the list of things I know he’s done would embarrass him, but I’m willing to bet the list of things he has taken care of without anyone’s knowledge would be twice as long. In this way, he taught me the principles of servant leadership—quiet service to others to build a more just and caring world.
Self-portrait as an eight-year-old, determined confidence in a bundle of energy, buzz-cut cowlicks highlight quirkiness only a child can embody. Self-portrait as a high school student, empowered by the community of theater and music, artistic and creative, shy and reserved one-on-one, afraid of appearing foolish. Self-portrait as a father, loving and sentimental, touched to tears […]