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Lodestar BRAVE Facilitators

Not all wisdom is heavy and hard-earned...
Sometimes it's discovered whilst coding a chicken.
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Read on for a bit of humor, a bit of perspective, and a bit of hope in broken things.
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Protect Your Bandwidth
Dear Everyone: Life has a way of teaching us the same lesson until we finally demonstrate competence. The universal lesson of now seems...
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Farm Lessons: Coding Chickens & Micro-Mitigation Moments
Dear Everyone: Farm life carries a unique set of challenges and loves to remind The Husband and I that we, in fact, know almost nothing...
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The Answer is Us
Pain teaches us the most counterintuitive thing – that we must go down before we even can know what up is. Suffering of some sort seems...
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Wild Places Make You Earn It...
Dear Everyone: We Repeat What We Don’t Repair. The number of times I’ve recited this fundamental truth can’t be quantified. It’s a...
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We're All Cracked...
Dear Everyone: A recent influx of new subscribers and site members served as a reminder that it's past time to reintroduce myself and our...
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Into the Wilderness I go...
Dear Everyone: This week’s edition of Cereal with Hand Poured Milk comes to you from deep in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness....
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ReWrite...
Dear Everyone: I had a lengthy missive written and ready for this week’s edition of Cereal with Hand-Poured Milk when a dear friend and...
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The Month of "Re"
Dear Everyone: I would like to formally declare June The Month of Re There are lots of Re words floating around out there right now...
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SAGing Into What's Next...
"Honor the space between no longer and not yet." Nancy Levin As we enter True Spring and the hope, planning, and aspiration that...
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What Breaks Your Heart?
Dear Everyone: When we summon the strength to fight for those things that most break our heart, we are living into our life’s purpose....
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"Who Do I Want To Be?"
Dear Everyone: Stress isn’t a bad thing. In fact, stress - particularly when appropriate, scaffolded supports are in place - is central...
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The Legacy Stops Here
Dear Everyone: Remember how they taught you. How much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down. The legacy stops here… Melissa Etheridge ~~...
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Weaponized Resilience
Dear Everyone: Recently, I've fielded a lot of requests for presentations and tools on resiliency. Specifically in healthcare and...
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Amplify or Mitigate?
Dear Everyone: We each have an important decision right now, one that many of us may not even recognize we face: Do I Amplify or...
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