“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart… Try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them—and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.” -Rainer Marie Rilke
We'll be discussing the questions that arise when reading Jeanne Lohmann's Poem "Questions Before Dark”
Read MoreHere's our November Question: "What is your experience with the violence of overactivity, and what does 'traveling at the speed of soul' mean for you?
What helps or reminds you to live at a healthy and life giving pace? What gets in the way?”
Read More In a time when the media is filled with stories that often feature the worst of humanity, we want to focus this month on acts of human decency and kindness. These stories, however small, are important. They remind us that the "better angels" of our nature are ever-present and at work. They give us hope!
So our October Question is: "Do you have a story about a small or large act of kindness that changed something for you, a time when you felt seen and heard, an act you remember to this day?”
We hope you’ll share a story with this online community.
Read MoreIn our September Question of the Month and podcast, we take on the topic of conflict on the personal, vocational, and political growing edges of our lives. We live in divisive times, culturally and politically. For many of us, navigating these complexities with family, friends, and colleagues has become challenging.
The September Question of the Month: When navigating conflict, what helps you stay true to yourself and your deepest values and beliefs? What touchstones and practices give you guidance in engaging other viewpoints creatively, and help you "know when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em?"
In our August podcast conversation with author Mark Nepo we explored what it means to show up for our lives more authentically.
What would it look like for you to show up for your life more authentically? What pushes back? Do you have a story about a time when you were true to yourself and it opened up something?
What is your experience of “living into the fullness of life?” What has helped you (or might help you) move beyond the fear of scarcity or loss, become more open to interdependence—to giving and receiving—and generate a sense of “enoughness” about yourself and the world?
Read MoreThis month, we explore fear and its effect on the human possibility, personally and communally. Fear is an ancient response to the alien and the unknown, to doing things that risk failure or put us in danger.
Read MoreWhen we follow our growing edges, what we are doing may look unwise or just plain wacky to others, including significant people in our lives.
Read MoreApril is a time of transition, as we emerge from a long winter into the promise of new growth…
Read MoreMarch 20 is the first day of spring, and spring is the season of mud and miracles—which makes spring a lot like life itself…
Read MoreAs winter slips into February on our patch of the planet, nature maintains a state of stillness in order to nurture its own growing edges—and we get the urge to take long naps…
Read MoreIt’s no accident that January takes its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of gateways and beginnings…
Read MoreIn many traditions, December is the doorway into a holiday season, a season of giving and receiving gifts…
Read MoreWhen the Growing Edge Question of the Month for November is posted, the midterm elections will be just a few days away…
Read More“The simple rose, at each moment of its slow blossoming, is as open as it can be. The same is true of our lives.”
Read MoreIt’s September, the start of the school year…
Read More“As we look toward our own growing edges—especially in hard times—many of us find ourselves torn between hope and hopelessness. How do you understand “hope?”
Read MoreIn the past, when you’ve felt a “growing edge” in your life…
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