A reflection on trust as something built or eroded by every action, in the relationship with yourself, with others, and in business, reframing trust as a running measure of perceived risk and offering a daily self-audit.
An in-depth teaching on trust as the foundation of intimate partnership, examining how trust differs from expectation, whether it can be rebuilt after being broken, and why trust is fundamentally a risk assessment.
A teaching on the river metaphor for life, blending fate and free will, explaining how flowing toward your purpose makes life easier, and offering an exercise in appreciating and releasing formative experiences to build trust.
A gospel-blues original song, with full chords and lyrics, about the certain feeling that wonderful things are coming — written the morning of the author’s 2016 birthday — and about openly welcoming that unknown good as a return to one’s true self.