March 2011 – Deborah Frieze

Isn’t this evidence that humans are by nature compassionate, caring and generous?

March 19, 2011/1 Comment/in Community, Gift Culture /by deborah

Yesterday, a friend forwarded an email that she had received from someone in Sendai, Japan. It was an intimate and moving portrait of survival there—a story no doubt many of us our hearing these days. I was particularly struck by these few lines:

A snow-inspired inquiry into whether what we do matters

March 7, 2011/9 Comments/in Berkana, Emergence, Pioneering Leaders /by deborah

Yesterday I was walking through a gentle snowstorm with my dear friend and Berkana colleague Tenneson Woolf. We were on Mt. Timpanogos, a magical place in Sundance, Utah. Everything was quiet up here at 6500 feet, as we trudged slowly along the slippery path. And then Tenneson asked me if I ever wondered whether what we do matters.