13 hours agoAmpersand Gazette #16Welcome to the Ampersand Gazette, a metaphysical take on the news of the day. If you know others like us, who want to create a world that includes and works for everyone, please feel free to share this newsletter. The sign-up is here. And now, on with the latest … …Metaphysics13 min read
Jul 25Ampersand Gazette #15Welcome to the Ampersand Gazette, a metaphysical take on the news of the day. If you know others like us, who want to create a world that includes and works for everyone, please feel free to share this newsletter. The sign-up is here. And now, on with the latest …Ampersand Gazette13 min read
Jul 11Ampersand Gazette #14Welcome to the Ampersand Gazette, a metaphysical take on the news of the day. If you know others like us, who want to create a world that includes and works for everyone, please feel free to share this newsletter. The sign-up is here. And now, on with the latest … …Ampersand Gazette15 min read
Sep 8, 2021National Ampersand Day — Be &National Ampersand Day — Be & Today is National Ampersand Day, which fits my mission on Earth perfectly. So, Beloved, do you Ampersand? Recently someone whose work I admire greatly wrote me a message on Facebook. Here is our exchange in its entirety with a few personal details (like names)…Ampersand3 min read
Feb 4, 2021What Comes After Nude Descending the Staircase?What if I told you that our world has already been in the exact place we are right now — except on a smaller scale? And what if I also told you that I know what comes next? Would you want to know or would you rather live into the…Pay Attention9 min read
Feb 3, 2021Rising from the Depths of DisappointmentWhen I was a kid, the very worst thing my mama could say to me was, I’m so disappointed in you. She never yelled it; she spoke sedately, quietly, but the feeling it gave me was downright awful. I felt transformed from regular size to Lilliputian. I’m coming to the…Disappointment9 min read
Feb 2, 2021The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Us GodI’m not really a movie person, but for some silly reason, I saw a movie when I was about 11, a piece of which has stayed with me for more than 50 years. Made in 1962, If a Man Answers starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson as a newly married…Truth9 min read
Feb 1, 2021The Road Forward Mandates Mutuality, Reciprocity, and ListeningLet’s just go for it this morning, shall we? Anyone else having ‘discussions’ about the validity of the coronavirus vaccine with unreasonable people? Wharton School of Business organizational psychologist Adam Grant had already had the anti-vaxxer debate of debates with one of his oldest friends. Then came corona. In his…Reciprocity9 min read
Jan 31, 2021Two Kinds of People — Which One Are You?You know how there are words that you know but only sort of? And usually because of context? Well, lately there’s one that’s been appearing daily — impunity — so I finally repaired to the OED to get a firm grasp on its antecedents and its meaning. The definition of…Impunity8 min read
Jan 30, 2021It’s Time for Some Common Common SenseIn as much as we are all humans, none of us will be surprised to learn that we want what we want when we want it, contradiction notwithstanding. As I read this morning’s New York Times, I kept thinking of an old proverb. Here’s what the Wikis say about it: …Laissez Faire9 min read