Holding paradox – an essential spiritual aptitude

To an earlier post, Claire submitted the following comment:
Sandy, I would love it if you could develop a bit your idea of ‘the ability to hold paradox is an essential spiritual aptitude for our time.’ It sounds good while I am not sure I understand exactly what you mean.
Thank you.
Claire and all, I realize that [...]

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“Furry invasion”

Well, yesterday was a very interesting day…I ended up not having anything to eat until about 3:00. Why?
The end of the engineering education conference overlapped with an annual “Furry Convention.” I moved from the hotel I was staying at to the main conference hotel for the last night, and was it ever a circus!
Not only [...]

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Engineering and Joy

On Monday, the keynote speaker at the engineering education conference I’m attending was discussing a project of the National Academy of Engineering, called Grand Challenges for Engineering. A team of high profile and visionary thinkers was assembled to think about the things that the world most needs as we look forward, and what we engineers [...]

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The Wombat – All is One

We just finished our Chapter of Affairs – more on that later. Suffice it to say that the Holy Spirit was very much in evidence as we struggled to articulate how we desire to incarnate the mission of Jesus over the next five years.
One of my sisters asked me to play a little video clip [...]

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“Personas” and authenticity

Thanks to Bernadette, who offers the following reflection for us (I took the liberty of making a title for it based on my views, which you’ll see later in the comments – we are in Chapter now, which means all day meetings, and very little time to blog.)
Well, this is an invitation I’ll take you [...]

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Hello, anyone out there?

So, things have been a bit quiet lately… I don’t have time for a “deep and real” post tonight, as I just arrived at my Chicago destination, and have to get up early in the morning.
So, I’m taking this opportunity to prod you, dear readers…what types of issues would you like to see me address [...]

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More on millennials…

In my recent post about our autonomous vehicle team, I was commenting about how impressed I was with these students. The “Millennial Generation”, or those born from around 1982 to around 1998, are the primary age demographic I see in my engineering classes at the university. Here are some of the characteristics of these young [...]

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Change happens

My time with my parents on Saturday caused me to reflect on change and the need to be gentle with myself as I and the people in my life move through change. It seems to me that every change, no matter how exciting and positive, always carries with it a need to grieve that which [...]

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A few adventures

Well, the last few days have been full, so let me fill you in on some of it…
You know that ancient Chinese curse, “May you have an interesting life.”? Well, I’m not saying anyone has put a curse on me, but I have had a few interesting things to deal with the last few days.

Lesson [...]

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World Champs!

Well, this was the year for our students to win the Grand Award in the annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. I was very happy for them, as they have been working so hard for many months, and they couldn’t be a nicer group of young people – good for them!
There are many great stories of [...]

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