Village Company 360 wasn’t my first pick for a business name, but the website addresses of names I wanted were taken or cost thousands of bucks. The word “company” fixed those problems, and had the added benefit of communicating that my work is about villages and business. Some find the idea of melding villages—caring communities…Continue reading The power of building boring businesses →

The world is a great thing for everybody.There are so many things that are good. My heart melted reading those words from my five-year-old great-niece in a Valentine’s Day card to me, and I can’t say them enough. The world is a great thing for everybody.There are so many things that are good. Rather than…Continue reading Words from a child to help reshape our worlds →

There’s a senator who would make me lose it. I threw a magazine across a room once to get his face on the cover out of my sight. Another time, hostile tears filled my eyes when I saw him on TV. Mercifully, I began to break free of this torment when the words of Booker…Continue reading A pre-Inaugration Day message →

My dad, in his 70s at the time, saw a poster on the University of Dayton campus when he was an adjunct professor there. It read, “FREE PIZZA FOR SENIORS!” Dad was feeling like he could go for a slice, but it didn’t click until he showed up for one that “seniors” meant people in…Continue reading Why what wealthier folks are paying to age well matters to middle income earners →

PART 1: To repeat from my recent post: “Certainty—or we can call it confidence—doesn’t come from thinking but doing. Instead of doing nothing because we’re unsure our village-growing ideas will work or help, let’s be citizen scientists and collect our own damned data!” OK, but who’s a citizen scientist and what’s data? Data is information…Continue reading Following our own damned data →

Part 1: Receiving A RevelationPart 2: Unlocking True Power At first, I thought that true power—being aligned with my soul—would feel transcendent. Later, I learned that it feels more like satisfaction. That rang true when I heard it, based on the decades I’d lived in dissatisfaction and for other reasons I won’t describe here. And…Continue reading A 3-part personal story: Inheriting the Earth →

Part 1: Receiving A Revelation When discussing my revelation with two dear friends, we talked about true power and the fact that we don’t know how our contributions fit or will fit into the big scheme of things. True power comes from aligning our personality with our soul. I learned this from spiritual teacher Gary…Continue reading A 3-part personal story: Unlocking True Power →

Last week, I started crying in despair shortly after waking up. Thankfully, I had the presence of mind to call on a lesson I learned back when I was studying kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism: Discomfort is light—new awareness—trying to be revealed. “What is this feeling trying to help me see?” I pleaded out loud. I…Continue reading A 3-part personal story: Receiving A Revelation →

I learned about the precautionary principle when I worked at Greenpeace. It says… The lack of evidence of harm isn’t evidence of lack of harm. In other words, just because there isn’t evidence showing that a certain chemical, let’s say, doesn’t do damage, it doesn’t mean that it’s safe. And this principle is used as…Continue reading The Prosperity Principle →