fully alive
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Rising to who you really are
“No one rises to low expectations.” That’s what Joe Brady said during the January 29 press conference when he was presented as the new head coach of the Buffalo Bills. He was talking about his expectations of himself in his new job. But he got me thinking about our expectations of ourselves in matters of… Continue reading
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The spring of life
I was mulling over what I would say to you today when I met Steven Spielberg for lunch and we started talking about his latest movie, The Fablemans. The film unlocks the meaning of most of Spielberg’s earlier movies – E.T. and Close Encounters, Jaws and Jurassic Park, the Indiana Jones films, Schindler’s List, Saving… Continue reading
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