One of the headhunters I’m working with has an expression I like: “root system.” He uses this to describe the essential professional DNA of certain individuals. It’s the world that forms the way you look at the professional world. For me, obviously, this is consulting. Those BCG days – every year I realize more and [...]
It’s been a long week. I miss my life in Cambridge. I am too emotional by half to work in my field. I had a tantrum yesterday on some colleagues because I didn’t feel they were treating candidates with respect. Then I cried to the headhunter who helps with this process (and who has been [...]
Lydia Rose Sussman April 23, 2008 Sending so much love to Jess, Jake, Julia, and Lydia. What an extraordinary affirmation of life and hope and the future your birth is, Lydia! Email this post
View from the 31st floor, somehow seems quintessentially New York to have an ornate church nestled in among high-rises.Tired this morning, with a long road ahead of me until I get to go home! And feeling a little wistful; thinking about those I love deeply: All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. [...]
Sky from this morning’s Delta shuttle. I love the light. This is another one of those photos that makes me believe heaven might exist.Am in New York for a week of interviewing and then going straight to Jupiter Island on Friday for Kendall’s wedding. Lots to look forward to but also a long time to [...]
I just finished Here if You Need Me, a beautiful, unexpected memoir by Kate Braestrup. The story is about her life after the early and accidental death of her police officer husband. She enters the ministry and describes life with her four young children in writing that is both simple and compelling, funny and sad.The [...]
“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.”(Golda Meir) Email this post
You all know I love scientists. I’d be one if I had more guts. A quote for today: “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” -Galileo Galilei Email this post
One of my favorite blogs did a post about windows to the soul. It inspired me to think about what some of those are for me – favorite vistas, images that remind me of those rare times when I see fundamental truth or know complete calm. In no particular order, here are a few: 1. [...]
Help. I took a Saturday morning walk with the children. As we strolled, smelled flowers, picked up trash, and balanced on stone walls, Grace announced to me that she was going to vote for McCain. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she would do no such thing, for another 13 years, but I [...]
