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This seems like an odd quote for the day after Labor Day, but it’s one I’ve always believed in. Work can either be a job, a career, or a calling. If we’re diligent and fortunate, it can feel as if you’ve been called by the heavens to answer your vocation. I’ve had three callings in ...
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After attending a week-long session at the Baja campus in January 2023, I decided to take the lessons learned and to bring them to my congregants, but with a twist.
It’s an honor to be in possession of such a bounty, but it’s also an obligation. Yes, I “mule” 20-25 books each time I travel to Baja or Santa Fe.
We live in a world in which strangers fall “in hate” all the time: the person who took your parking space at the mall, the idiot at the movie theater
We face some monumental societal problems and it’s easy to feel perplexed by how we’ll solve them. As a result, we feel a sense of modern despair and helplessness. But,
I was in a reflective mood given all that has happened the past year: a radical prostatectomy, hormone depletion therapy, 36 sessions of radiation, the launch of a book and
It occurred to me recently, as I listened to a friend relay details of their ‘fun’ weekend, that my definition of ‘fun’ (which ‘back in the day’ used to resemble
There are currently numerous experimental clay mugs without handles crowding my room, some stacked cracked “failures” I can’t yet find a use for, or bury in a garden .. simply
So, if that’s the case, maybe MEA is a prep school for modern elderhood (defining elderhood as a life stage that can last 30 or 40 years), another normal life
Black Bird Saloon in Cerrillos, Legal Tender in Lamy, and NOSA in Ojo Caliente. Beyond the fabulous food at each place, what’s notable is these restaurants are only open either
So, I wondered which corporate exec could teach me about culture and I thought about which company I most admired for their culture. Southwest Airlines was at the top of
I’ve been running hospitality businesses for nearly forty years, so I’ve had my share of unhappy customers. Ironically, two of the two-dozen compadres in last week’s MEA workshop in Santa
Happy Memorial Day in the U.S.! The wise human recognizes that death isn’t your own end-of-life ritual, but it’s something we can experience over and over again: the end of
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