“We must listen carefully and speak wisely.” There it was. A day of teaching connection, listening, and empathy and their implications in human rights field work with 70 students was drawing to a close and we were sharing our final thoughts through clay sculptures. As the clay worked its magic, helping us move through complexity to the simplicity on the other side, it drew out this statement. She was crouching on the floor with her clay modeling team and the rest of us h

I look around me, and inside me, these days and I see broken people. We are dealing with grief, burnout, relationship troubles, family troubles, difficult work situations, financial difficulties, physical and inner instability, disease, various inner crises, and overall just trying to get our lives together…again. For many of us, it seems when there is the faintest glimmer of hope, of light, something else happens. The other shoe drops. And the shoes must belong to a cent