The Empathy Effect and a Couch in Salt Lake City

The Empathy Effect and a Couch in Salt Lake City

With three children pretty much grown, a winter ski gathering in Salt Lake City seemed like a great way to spend some good time together, and it was. However as is inevitable our pretty much grown children took remnants of their childhood relationships along for the...
Can Good Design Inspire Creative Solutions?

Can Good Design Inspire Creative Solutions?

Can good design inspire creative solutions? Can imagery change our thinking? And what possibly could Marcus Aurelius have to do with any of it? When I first saw this inspired holiday card I was struck not only by the sleek and clever design reversal, but also by how...
The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness

Spiritual genetics is a term I’d never heard before hearing Chris Gardner (perhaps best known as the lead character played by Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness) describe it during a lecture I was lucky enough to attend.  He talked about how he’d crafted the...

Art and Its Impact

 “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou Like many things in life, how they manifest matters as much as that they manifest. This is never truer than...
Parenting In Three Genders

Parenting In Three Genders

Recently I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s book Stuck In The Middle With You, which recounts her parenting as a father, then while in transition, and finally after her transition, as a mother. The fluidity of gender, and the social constructs society assigns to men and...
Consilium Grows Its Impact

Consilium Grows Its Impact

Consilium’s growth has been the result of many minds and hearts working together to build a better system, and its evolution reminds me of the 12th century theologian and author John of Salisbury’s phrasing in his 1159 treatise on logic, Metalogicon, when he wrote:...
When the Truth Hurts…

When the Truth Hurts…

Quite some time ago when my son was bussing tables at Bertucci’s he came across a note written on a napkin, and thinking I might find it interesting he gave it to me to read.  I did in fact find it interesting and set it aside imagining that one-day I might want to...

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