Posts by John Kinyon
Care for us, and them, during these difficult times
As we humans deal with the global challenge of Coronavirus, I am seeing the way systems here in the U.S. are set up and functioning in ways that make the non-wealthy particularly vulnerable. The strong government support and social safety nets we had decades ago have been drastically weakened over time, and now as this…
Read MoreEmpathy and Mindfulness with Inner Conversations of Fear and Anxiety
I am wondering how you are doing with the impacts of the Coronavirus? How intense is the fear and anxiety for you? Are you scared about protecting and providing for yourself and those you love? As we humans deal with the intensity of this challenge that Nature is bringing to us, it is so easy…
Read MoreSearching Together For A Way Forward
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.–DANTE Have you had times in your life when things seemed dire and impossible to resolve, where every direction you could imagine had consequences you deeply didn’t want? The mind goes round and round…
Read MoreEmpathic Conversation & Politics
As I write this, it is just a few days after the U.S. Senate acquitted Donald Trump of impeachment. It is no surprise to me that Trump proclaimed himself completely vindicated and exonerated of any misdeeds. What has been shocking and disturbing to me (just when I thought I could no longer be shocked by…
Read MoreBuilding Empathic Community in Organizations, Networks, and in our Personal Lives
I want to write about faith,about the way the moon risesover cold snow, night after nightfaithful even as it fades from fullness,slowly becoming that last curving and impossiblesliver of light before the final darkness.But I have no faith myselfI refuse it even the smallest entry.Let this then, my small poem,like a new moon, slender and…
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