Episodios

  • Our Great Responsibility to Those Who Are Ours

    Our Great Responsibility to Those Who Are Ours
    Jul 6 2025
    Agency. This word has recently been on my mind – not in reference to a business or organization, or a contractual term. I’m thinking of human agency in what Wikipedia defines as “the capacity of individuals to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential.” Agency in this context is a sociological construct and […]
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    9 m
  • The Rightful Desire for Order in a Chaotic World

    The Rightful Desire for Order in a Chaotic World
    Jun 29 2025
    The Myth of Managed Chaos “You don’t manage chaos, you endure it,” I responded. Our conversation had wandered from business to family to the world and the many threads of doubt and uncertainty that entwine it. My comment was a reaction to the phrase “managed chaos,” a common trope that for numerous reasons really struck […]
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    9 m
  • Where Are the Big Ideas? We’re Thinking Too Small

    Where Are the Big Ideas? We’re Thinking Too Small
    Jun 22 2025
    What goals would you be setting for yourself if you knew you could not fail? Robert Schuller Remember the last time you got a new toy? You know, the thing that returned you to youthful giddiness…even if just for a while. My Father’s Day gift this year was a pair of serious home audio speakers; […]
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    7 m
  • Fatherhood: Dominion, Duty, and Devotion

    Fatherhood: Dominion, Duty, and Devotion
    Jun 15 2025
    A baby changes everything. The nine months of pregnancy are deeply formational for mother and father, however, with that first look at his child, dad begins to truly understand just how much his life is no longer just about him. Having carried the baby and imbued with her powerfully intuitive feminine gifts, mom is way […]
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    7 m
  • Among the Great Mysteries: Barking at Rabbits

    Among the Great Mysteries: Barking at Rabbits
    Jun 8 2025
    There is a great mystery about dogs. Why do they do the things they do? Theirs is a fascination with everything. Every noise, every smell…every little speck of anything attracts their attention as the most interesting thing in the universe. Then, on to the next thing. Puppies chase leaves floating across the yard. My dog […]
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    5 m
  • To Carry or to Accompany? The Question of a Lifetime

    To Carry or to Accompany? The Question of a Lifetime
    Jun 1 2025
    Due to a curious alignment of the moon and stars this week-end, I found myself flying solo in the domestic bliss of fatherhood and grandfather-hood. I say “solo” but that is only in the context of Sally being out of town – I was blessed to have any threat of aloneness banished by a steady […]
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    8 m
  • Lost in the Many Things: Innocence, Focus, and Power

    Lost in the Many Things: Innocence, Focus, and Power
    May 25 2025
    “Look into my eyes Nanny,” he said, cupping her face an inch or two from his. Three-year-old Fulton had just returned to our house after realizing that he had left without saying a proper goodbye by looking deeply into his Nanny’s eyes….and having her look deeply into his. This image from the past found me […]
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    4 m
  • The Season of Many Things

    The Season of Many Things
    May 18 2025
    Upon the field I stand,This is the time of tensionThe many things commandThe limits of a most mortal self.In that time, when all took the fieldWe marched with heads highBanners waving, high heraldry parading.But this was no fair, norCastle in the air, the enemy is real.Honor no longer a child’s imagining,Reality cuts harshly upon virtue.More […]
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    2 m