A Gnawing Suspicion
A Friday event, Bookshop Discount, and A Simple Quote
First things first. Join me this Friday for an important conversation.
Grief At Work: Leading Through Loss
While 1 in 9 employees experience a loss every year, most leaders freeze for fear of saying and doing the wrong thing. This leaves people to navigate grief in isolation while dealing with policies that often fall short of true support. This session provides practical understanding and intentional tools to support people with confidence and empathy during life’s hardest moments. By learning to integrate grief rather than ignore it, you create an organization that is a place of both compassionate humanity and meaningful performance.
In partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy and Eastern Indiana Works.
Join us on Zoom at 1pm ET — free (with required registration).
I had a much longer post written for today, but sometimes you realize you’re saying things without meaning much. And so I’ll save that for another day, when it can take on a more meaningful shape.
I have a journal of sorts, what I call my “Place to Drop My Thoughts”—it’s a monthly folder riddled with quotes, sketches, random ideas, phrases, and medium-length reflections. I often go back and look at past years to see what was percolating in my mind back then.
I was looking back this morning at previous Marches, and one quote stood out to me most. The quote comes from Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, a Jewish scholar who appeared on the OnBeing podcast, a personal favorite. He wrote:
“[a mystic] is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.”
Would you consider yourself a mystic? Mystic adjacent? What are your thoughts on this quote from Rabbi Kushner?
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This dispatch was written to music, including the song “Sleep for Days” Vulfmon and Jackie Evans, a 2026 single.