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All work gets done through relationships. The conscious use of power can be medicine. Viva Las Vegas.

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If you forgot you read a book, is it still part of you?
I reread some books from my childhood.
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Slow thinking in a fast world
(Also low-key Vegas travel trips.)
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How reality TV illustrates emotional roles
I've been a casual watcher of reality TV for many years.
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What Vegas teaches us about relationship systems
I've been chilling at Fontainebleau.
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Writing about the self, Nate Bargatze, and translation
I've come to understand myself as a translator between worlds.
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Quitting writing, writing communities, and cultural narratives about emotion
I’m writing a manuscript of poems about Las Vegas
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Fostering emergence, naming the grief, and navigating the liminal zones
The hd expo at Mandalay Bay, Jackie and Shadow and the eaglets, and imagining yourself at age 80
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Built for complexity, grief, and rigor. Carrying paradoxes that most people instinctively split apart.
And what Deloitte misses in its 2025 report on higher education
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To be a fundraiser, let go of fundraising
To be an advocate, let go of advocacy.
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The Interview: Rob Banghart of Shine A Light
A conversation about purpose, relationships, and effective case management
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What are markers of effective nonprofits?
A checklist and an intro to a new feature: case studies
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Rethinking "efficiency" in social impact work
What the nonprofit sector knows that business doesn't
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