Be an effective ally for LGBT people
Read this if you’re interested in being a more effective advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people. (www.soaw.org/new/ article.php?id=634) These are some guidelines for people wanting to be allies for LGBT people. In today’s world, LGBT issues are being discussed more than ever before. The discussions taking place in …
Understand how life happens for other people
“The bottom line is that we have a basic drive to connect, and that for most humans, it happens naturally and intuitively, and that it feels good. But it doesn’t happen this way for all of us.” –Catherine Faherty My amazing next door neighbor, Catherine, recently gave me a book …
Decide how to decide
“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets Every summer, I used to disappear from the association management scene to indulge my secret life as an artist. For most of August, you could find …
Reconnect, now.
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" – Stephen Levine A woman I used to work with in Washington, DC, died on January 12, 2005. I was …
Design your own emotional epaulets
"My face is a gift, because my shadow side is on the outside, where I have had to deal with it. Paradoxically, I have been made whole through (and with) what originally seemed to be my flaws." –David Roche My husband, John, and I were amusing ourselves at lunch yesterday …
Get off the ship
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." –Eleanor Roosevelt In the fall of 1988, I sailed around the world. Actually, that sounds more romantic and rugged …
Be nice to bellhops
We all believe in equality as long as it is equality with our superiors. I’ll never forget being on a business trip years ago with a colleague and watching in horror as she—in her gray, beautifully tailored designer suit and heels—literally stamped her foot like a terrible, small child and …
Speak up with your one true voice
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Baptist minister and civil-rights leader. 1929-1968) —————————————— I’ve been thinking a lot about Kitty …
An Invitation to 37 days
3 Jan 2005 It’s a whole new year. I got up very early this morning and as I sat with my first cup of coffee, I realized that I’ve set and broken many new year’s resolutions over the past decade. One that just keeps getting pushed back is to spend …
Finding your (com)passion
”Do not ask what the world needs. Instead, ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.” —Thurmond Whitman That quote came to me from someone I don’t know, quite by accident. A few weeks ago, it came across my email …
