Posts from the ‘Become Who You Are’ Category
The text in red below is from Susan Cain’s Kindred Spirits Newsletter* on 2.1.23. I knew the minute I read it, I would find some way to build a Valentine’s post around it. I highly recommend the entire post that the red section below was only part of. Her words will be in red and my […]
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For the Road to Santiago by David Whyte “For the road to Santiago, don’t make new declarations about what to bring and what to leave behind. Bring what you have. You were always going that way anyway, you were always going there all along.” No New Year’s Resolutions, as we traditionally think […]
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Dear Readers, I am an apprentice to David Whyte’s Invitas: A Path to Conversational Leadership. I have followed his work for nearly 25 years now. I have learned to be in dialogue with any and everything , so too, with poems. In fact listening to David recite and riff on a poem puts one in […]
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As you know I am a Wonders. Daughter of Robert John Wonders, Mary Skotze Wonders, niece of Helen Wonders Chandler, Marion Wonders Wollum, Louise Wonders McKinnon, Lucy Wonders Doney, Virginia Wonders Rahoi, Joseph Wonders, and Harry Wonders. And Granddaughter of Claire Lemieux Wonders to whom I owe my middle name and my beloved Harry Wonders. […]
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This line of (from a Rilke poem from his Book of Hours) arrests me. I heard it read by the poet David Whyte at the opening of our second Invitas learning experience near his home on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington State, almost a month ago. It was evening, there had been wonderful […]
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