by Dr. Chris Johnson | Aug 1, 2021 | Learning, Passion, Purpose
Tell me, what’s your thing? You know, that thing you’ve always wanted to do that stays safely hidden on the back-burner, that’s worth your doing? Completing a 10K race? Finishing a degree? Starting a family? Skydiving? Singing karaoke? For me, it’s writing a...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Apr 1, 2021 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Purpose
Each school day, my sister and I walked a quarter mile down the lane to catch the yellow school bus. Most of the time I loved those walks and our easy companionship as we waited for the bus to roll into our little valley. On days when it was windy or cold, I’d snuggle...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2021 | Learning, Practice, Purpose, Resilience
COVID, politics, grief, inequities – have ravaged & revealed. They’ve revealed our fault lines, our expectations, our fictions about how the world works, the personal stories we cling to like life rafts, trying to avoid the treacherous, uncertainties...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Nov 4, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Purpose
What kind of difference do you want to make? It’s a compelling question anytime, and especially today. We’ve all been through the wringer this year as COVID’s taken its toll on our health and our family’s well-being, our work and livelihood, our experience of...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Oct 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Purpose
Life is all about choices. As Kenny Rogers famously crooned in his song, The Gambler: “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em Know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away And know when to run” It can be a bit like a giant card game: we’re...
by Brian Fippinger | Sep 2, 2020 | Passion, Purpose
This is a picture of one of my favorite places on the planet. Piper’s Alley, in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, circa around 1970. It was a place of Hippies, great music, inclusion (heck, I had been going there for a couple of years by that time, and I was only 12 in...
