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Hope
One of A Peace of My Mind’s roles in the world is to foster hope. In people and in organizations. There are good folks in the world doing good work and if we can amplify and encourage those efforts,...
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Courage
Eighteen days at ArtPrize was quite the run! We installed our new exhibit, Lessons on the Road to Peace for the first time at the future site of Silva, currently a gorgeous and raw space. Now that the...
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Belonging
I spent a week in Corvallis, Oregon gathering stories of belonging. It was a broad coalition of campus and community organizations that brought us to town and as a result, we were able to include a...
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The home stretch
We are about a month away from the delivery of our new book, Lessons on the Road to Peace. I’m pretty sure I understood that an 11-month turnaround to write, edit, design, and produce a 304-page book...
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Engage
We spent a few days this fall with K-State Research and Extension professionals in Manhattan Kansas and asked, “When have you been inspired to engage with your community?” And this is what people...
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Press check
Here’s how the book was looking in the wee, dark hours of the morning today. All the pages have run through the press and are stacked on pallets, waiting to be assembled. I’ve spent much of my career...
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Belonging 2.0
“When have you felt a sense of belonging?” That’s the question we asked in a small rural town in Minnesota. I’ve worked with the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center in the past. They hosted one of...
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Calling
I spent time last week at the Nebraska Women in Agriculture conference in Kearney. We asked participants, “What has called you to this work?” I like questions like that. They are open-ended. They let...
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NYC
I spent time in New York City last week. Meetings, reconnecting with friends, gallery hopping, networking. It was a chance to refill my creative cup and to imagine new possibilities. After all, our...
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Advocate
At Kutztown University we asked, “How can you be an advocate for others?” Life is hard and sometimes it takes all we have just to make it through the day. But in all of the people I have interviewed...
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