Wild Poems
On Wild Growth
We can try to measure growth. Certainly work and school environments have systems in place to track learning or assess strategies. We set goals, use metrics and analytics to measure deliverables, and track growth. And yet, there is a whole dimension...
On Assumptions
We make assumptions. All the time. From first impressions to reading "into" things; from assuming outcomes to judging what we see. It is our nature. And it can lead to colossal misunderstandings or hurt feelings, to name a few...
On Fluidity
Our lives mirror the weather and seasons. Anyone who's had enough spins around the sun knows this--the cycles of ups and downs, the understanding that there are beginnings and endings and back again...
On Fertile Ground
All of us carry a unique blend of possibilities and routine. Sometimes they are entwined--things we've done or believed for a long time begin to shift. Other times, the possibilities are a new direction, a path we've not taken before...
On Different Ways of Knowing
Call it a gut reaction or some deeper form of knowing. Once in a while you have a sense that you should do something, say something, or perhaps stop doing or saying something. Often these thoughts come to you unbidden, when you aren't focused on whatever it is...