BIG IDEA: There are many obstacles and barriers which keep us from neighboring well. Fear and lack of time are constant challenges to our modern way of life. What would it look like to overcome these barriers and live a life in our neighborhoods which was filled with hope and margin to afford opportunities to … More The Art of Neighboring: Overcoming Barriers

BIG IDEA: Most people living in Seattle in 2017 have overdeveloped “suspicion muscles” because they have been thoroughly overstimulated by news outlets, advertisers, Hollywood, and the previous generation. We are “wary” of everyone’s motives. Our greatest fear is being duped, deceived, tricked, hoodwinked, hoaxed, swindled, double-crossed; conned, diddled, shafted, rooked, suckered, snookered or cat-fished. So … More The Art of Neighboring: Motives Matter

BIG IDEA:  We live in a city of highly educated and astute thinkers, yet there still seem to be certain elusive ideas that even the best minds continually struggle to grasp. At “The Bear & the Butterfly Open Forum” we highlighted one such beautiful, yet elusive, idea and openly grappled with it from perspectives of … More The Bear & the Butterfly: An Open Forum on Suffering