Author Archives: Richard O Fuller

About Richard O Fuller

Quaker, living in the Twin Cities, Minnesota.

Resilience

So,Andrew Zolli, author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, is part of an association of change agents who have gathered together under the name “Pop Tech.” Andrew “curates” conferences which draw presenters from mostly-isolated “silos of excellence” together with knowledgeable audiences to … Continue reading

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Distracted?

Or Terrified Beyond Words? I feel good about what I wrote in the first six posts of this year. And then I stopped. I feel good about that, too.My emotional life, my intellectual understanding, are part of a larger flow … Continue reading

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Synchronicity, Serendipity, Epiphany & Apophenia

I started my March 30 post with the familiar ironic trope, “just a coincidence…” There, the reader could believe that I think it is more than a coincidence, while not needing to take a position herself. Now I want to address … Continue reading

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Stephen Jenkinson on Our Dying Culture, pt. 2 & 3

So this is my journey, at this point. Paul Gilding has inspired me not to feel marginalized. Not to slink around as if I was carrying a bunch of crazy ideas, rather than having a partial grasp of what will … Continue reading

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Feeling Fear Frees Me, Opens Me Up

Just a coincidence, right, that as I opened myself to the flow of my fear a new friend happened to mention the website OrphanWisdom.com? Stephen Jenkinson has a profound critique of our culture and a vision for some of the elements … Continue reading

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The Scream

Paul Gilding breaks our Great Disruption into three stages. The first he names The Scream, partly because of the shrill tone sounded by environmentalists and whole-planet-systems theorists, and partly in honor of Edvard Munch’s portrait,  Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream … Continue reading

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Going into my fear

Mar 5, 2013 Sixteen of us met with Betsy and her co-trainer, Mysnikol, for a six-week class: Faith and Hope In a Time of Uncertainty. We spent much of our time in pairs and small groups, addressing questions about what we feared … Continue reading

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Fear, Anticipating THE GREAT DISRUPTION

Mar 4, 2013 As I opened the floodgates at 4:30AMand let the fear flow in,a lot of things about my life make more sense. In later posts I’m going to be sharing some of my fears, here,and my responses to … Continue reading

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My Playground, March 2012

2023, February. Looking at this post now, it seems to exhibit the enthusiasm of my inner child discovering a new playground! I run wildly from one new excitement to another, exclaiming “let’s talk about this! Oh, and let’s talk about … Continue reading

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End of 2011 Summary

I said in my first post on this website I have learned over the last year that developing and maintaining a website is a bit like getting a pet, it’s an ongoing effort which requires regular attention. I have been … Continue reading

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