The Journey to a PhD

Shades of Permanence: Stories on Pedestals, Phones, and Plaster
Video Meditation #2. A look at both the instant and enduring works of Michelangelo, our class, and some random Florentine tourists.

The Story of Fashion: Attitude is Eternal
Video Meditation #3. Styles change, but attitude is eternal.

Alternative Facts: Deliberately Misunderstood Stories
Video Meditation #4. What if those statues don't mean what we think they mean?

Impressive Knockers: Variations on a Theme
Video Meditation #5. An exploration of the seemingly endless ways to accomplish a simple task. With special thanks to everyone who took...

Street Art
These are examples of contemporary public art that I liked. Had I but world enough and time, these would have been turned into a video...

Scary Art
These are images (or pieces of art) that I found disturbing or unsettling. They may get turned into a video meditation (like those on...

Final Meditation
I'm sitting on the plane flying back to the States. I travel a lot, so I am used to the routine of leaving home, immersing in a place for...

Meditation on the Paradox of Despair and Hope
I would disagree with the assertion that hope vs. despair constitutes a paradox of leadership (at least in the area of leading change...

Meditation on Justice and Charity
At first I thought justice would be easy. It's doing and knowing what is right. But that's not really it. That's being just. But justice...

Meditation After Visiting Caritas
Our host (Dr. Civilleti) seemed very proud of the artwork and design of the entryway into Caritas and how that existed to put the minds...

Meditation on Spirituality and Leadership
Let's take a side trip to Buddhism as a way of exploring non-western spirituality. Buddhism has a tenant of egolessness. While there are...

Meditation on Family, Community, and Leadership
Family strictly defined: mother, father, wife, husband, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, uncles, cousins, nephews, Etc. Cooking beyond...

Meditation on Power and Ego
Taking the lead from the syllabus, today I slowed down. I've been a "hair on fire" tourist for the past 3 days. Today I got up,...

Meditation After Arrival
I'm taking an embarrassing number of pictures of old buildings afraid that if I don't shoot everything I might miss something important...

614: An Exploratory, Mixed Methods Sonnet
Adrift upon a research methods sea, I started class confused and full of fear. My sails were slack, the helm spun aimlessly, I had a...

Mondragon and the Military
An Inspirational Visit: The business structures and practices pioneered by the cooperatives of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation...

Give Me a Moment
I remember the first time it happened. It was in an acting class in grad school. We’d been given short scenes to memorize and assigned a...

Universal Breadcrumbs
Toward the end of our last class meeting, we were told to be on the lookout for examples of synchronicity, the “meaningful coincidences”...

A Holland's Hero Looks Back: A Group Project Reflection
Project Summary On Saturday, 30 March 2019, Holland’s Heros (the democratically chosen moniker for our randomly-selected presentation...














