I've been on a bit of a ranting rampage lately, and I feel a little shy about it. Mostly I'm discovering how much I love writing about stuff that I feel passionate about. I feel really passionate about the Economics of Kindness. I am working out the details of describing the Economics of Kindness, and …
Social Worker Observations #001
I do low-income home inspections, which puts me in a unique position of directly observing low-income housing conditions. One thing I've been observing lately is that there is a real need for mental health counselors who will come to their client's houses and help them clean. Mental health counseling is great, but going to someone's …
The Plyvagal Theory: The New Science of Safety
How can a trauma informed growth mindset improve effectiveness and performance in the workplace?
Applying a growth mindset to trauma healing makes resilience and recovery into learnable skills that anyone can work to develop.
Unsolicited Advice
An observation of a negative feedback loop, From an outside perspective. How to, Give helpful input, To facilitate A shift…? Tricky business…. A criticism of A negative feedback loop of criticism, Might just feed the feedback loop Of criticism. Might just, fan the flames. The only way out Is to get off the loop. Cease …
A Love Story
{Written in journal winter 2015} Two people. Adventurers. Partners in crime. One is yin to the other’s yang, And they trade it back and forth. Sometimes they adventure apart from each other, Following different threads of their thoughts. Two halves of a whole… Each a whole and complete universe in themselves, Together more than the …
The Origin of Pheonix Chicken
People often ask me where I got the name Pheonix Chicken. It is an idea that was born out of the Occupy/Decolonize movement. It was a vision that came to me, one moonlit night, during a fire and water ceremony with activist friends, on a beach in Seattle. Writing the narrative of interdependance... Some humans …
Driving in circles
KK and Pheonix are going to the sauna. Driving the Bumble Bee. But there is no parking to be had at either the YMCA or the Coop. They drive in circles, searching for parking. Probably circle the block at least four or five times. On the last pass, they are coming out the alley behind …
manipulating space and time
I'm not entirely sure if this answers the question you're asking, but it's what came to my mind when reading it: I had a moment during an ayahuaska ceremony (mind you, this was like my 10th ceremony in 5 weeks...) - a moment where I suddenly understood how to manipulate space and time. But I …
Amplify the Heart’s Voice
Because everything I’m seeking is always all around me, all the time.
I have only to wake up and be present.
Open, present, sensing, feeling...
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