Right, Left, and Center: Liminal Space Liminal Spaces are transitional or transformational spaces. They are waiting areas between one point in space and the next. (Dictionary) We as a nation are hanging in this liminal space. The presidential election has been held. In the minds of many Americans, it is completed. In [...]
Savoring The Silence We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet. WB Yeats Collectively we share this Corona Virus crisis. COVID19. Most of us are conscientiously [...]
When Air Becomes Breath In his inspiring memoir, When Breath Becomes Air, brilliant neurosurgeon resident, Paul Kalinthi, tracks his existential, spiritual, and physical journey through life into death. Death- that point in time when the breath that once sustained life becomes, once again, only air. In life, the opposite is true. What [...]
photo by Jim Freeman “Play is the gateway to vitality. By its nature it is intrinsically rewarding. It generates optimism, seeks out novelty, makes perseverance fun, leads to mastery, gives the immune system a bounce, fosters empathy and promotes a sense of belonging andcommunity.” Patch Adams June 13th was not my typical [...]
Myers Briggs Type: Right, Left & Center. “First of all, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” [...]
Right, Left and Center Through A Different Lens The games have begun. We already see a ramping up of emotional intensity among party loyalists on both sides. Before we get carried away into an unintended brawl, let us remember who we are. We are a melting pot of divergent thinkers. Our forefathers risked life and [...]
Myers-Briggs Type: Extraversion & Introversion The Lens in which we look. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. “ “You never really understand a person until you consider things form his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in [...]
Myers-Briggs Type: Sensing and Intuition (This post is the fourth in the series: Right, Left and Center. I invite you to review the first three in order to put this one into context.) We have been considering personality differences through the lens of Myers-Briggs Personality Type. It is my fervent hope that by developing respectful [...]
Myers-Briggs Type Thinking and Feeling (This post is the fifth in the series: Right, Left and Center: through a different lens. I invite you to review the first four in order to put this one into context.) Congress continues to squabble, citizens seek solace in their own pre-judged perspectives, and the country polarizes itself more [...]
Myers-Briggs Type: Judging-and-Perceiving (This is the final article of the series Right, Left and Center: through a different lens. To put this into context, you may want to read the previous five articles in this series.) It is fitting that the final article on Myers-Briggs Type would deal with the functions that describe how we [...]
