by John M. DeMarco | Sep 11, 2021 | Learning, Meaning, Mindfulness, Storytelling
September 24, 2021 My first Fitbit is on the way! Yes, I’m very late to the party, but I need new types of tracking and motivation these days to offset the slowing of my metabolism and my body’s overall insistence on growing older and less efficient....
by John M. DeMarco | Dec 30, 2020 | Meaning
Today, each of us lives in the epicenter of a dynamic, surreal tension between the forces of tremendous potential and forces that could extinguish our species and render Earth uninhabitable for most life forms. And regardless of how these forces play out on a...
by John M. DeMarco | Dec 30, 2020 | Learning, Meaning, Mindfulness, Storytelling
As I’ve continued to grow and learn, as I’ve thrived and stumbled through various experiences and seasons of life, I’ve noticed that three practices in particular are the most powerful, transformative, and relevant for meaningful living and careers, in the face of...
by John M. DeMarco | Jul 5, 2020 | Books I Recommend, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Meaning
“We were eight years in power,” said South Carolina congressman Thomas Miller in 1895, as white politicians, falsely accusing Reconstruction’s Black leadership of corruption and incompetency, passed new laws that fully restored white supremacy....
by John M. DeMarco | Jul 5, 2020 | Books I Recommend, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Meaning
“We might think of whiteness as all the aspects of being white,” Robin DiAngelo writes, “aspects that go beyond mere physical differences and are related to the meaning and resultant material advantage of being defined as white in society: what is...
by John M. DeMarco | Jun 11, 2020 | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Meaning
Love and Rage: the twin oaks that live and branch within me and have done so for five decades. Love that expresses itself with the transparency of a glass of fresh water. Rage that bubbles up like a volcano reemerging from its long, cold slumber. I’m grateful...
