My interest continues to turn towards those leaders who take on intractable problems for the greater public good, those who forever break the limiting hold these issues have on humanity. I am looking for visionaries who are breaking through the boundaries we find ourselves constrained by. I am particularly interested in those leaders who have […]
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From my daughter, Ruchi, with her permission. A homework assignment, to write a narrative that expresses your identity: In the hardest time of my life, when I almost died, my spirituality saved me. When I lived in New Delhi, India, at the Welfare Home for Children, I would hear the auntie/caretaker tell tales about gods
We know that if we use a device that measures waves to detect light, we find light to be a wave. And if we use a device that measures particles for the same task, we detect light to be made up of particles. So, we can see that the apparatus we use to detect has
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Life often has its moments when things are not easy. Unfair circumstances can prevail and knock us out of our orbit. Nature sometimes serves up an ordeal nobody expected or wanted. Or sometimes it’s just a confluence of small things that don’t work out the way we want and the overall impact takes us over.
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Last Thursday I attended UCLA’s University-Led Grand Challenge workshop. A grand experience! What is a grand challenge? A Grand Challenge is a big, bold, socially beneficial goal that addresses a systemic problem through collaboration and joint leadership. For a more detailed description, see my recent paper with Julie Jordan Avritt. In attendance were major educational
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Sunday was our 6th year anniversary of adopting our daughter, Ruchi. Before she was in our family she spent some time living on the street in New Delhi followed by two years in an orphanage. Ruchi is a survivor. Today she is in school, doing very well and enjoys using multiple devices simultaneously while she
Poems move the human spirit, else why do they exist? Like music, they escape the rational brain and call to our deeper nature. Whenever I hear a poem that speaks to me, I capture it so I can pull it out later on some night when I feel dismal and uninspired. I do this by
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1990 the first Buffalo Gap men’s retreat took place and I was not there. Had not even heard of it. But sometime over the next 12 months I found out about this extraordinary group of guys and jumped aboard. Every fall since then I have participated with the exception of the year I was in
When I was a little tyke my parents did not practice a religion. My dad is a non-religious Jew and my mother came from a family with many forms of Christianity in their background. I guess that intersection and their personalities didn’t generate any kind of ritual structure or faith community. So, when I was
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Sometimes this amazing feeling washes over me, an internal indicator that my life has embarked on an exciting new adventure. I pay special attention to my circumstances when this happens because I treasure the feeling. This last week I started reading several books simultaneously, and made a list of 20 books I am really looking
