Even if somebody writes a recipe for you, what’s not in the recipe are the nuances: how the gravy looks when it’s ready, and how it smells when it’s ready. You can’t see that on a piece of paper where a recipe is written. You have to walk with a real good cook to learn […]
Acknowledging the team behind the hero
Every so often, a historian will teach us a little more about the cast of thousands who co-created the 20th Century US Civil Rights Movement, those who preceded charismatic figures like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Kwame Ture in the work, and whose stories surface far less often. In a new collection of […]
Giving up the need to know it all
After this weekend’s conference closed yesterday, I invited a fellow presenter to stop by our house for lunch on their way home. We were both exhausted and fit for little more than sitting quietly on the couch and waiting for food to appear. So I was surprised when my friend picked up my almost finished but abandoned Rubik’s cube. […]