by Mary Henton | Aug 4, 2021 | Learning
“What do you know about developing a learning culture?” This was the question a recently-hired executive of a non-profit/for-impact organization asked me. Her organization was less than four-years old. There were only five employees at the time. While she...
by Mary Henton | Jul 5, 2021 | Courage, Learning, Personal development
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives...
by Mary Henton | Jun 15, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person’s pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery. Standing there we feel useless and powerless, which is exactly...
by Mary Henton | May 7, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
Panicked, frightened, confused, and furious, I called my Al-Anon sponsor. My sixteen-year-old daughter had just stormed out of the house in a rage. I don’t remember the inciting incident. I just remember what I felt: worry, anger, fear, and everything in between. An...
by Mary Henton | Apr 1, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
Five years ago, in 2016, while living in Beni, DRC, I wrote the following reflection. As I reread it recently, I realized I’ve neglected to look for small resurrections this past year. It’s time to open my eyes and my heart again. On Good Friday I began rereading Nora...
by Mary Henton | Jan 21, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
It had not been an easy week. Competing needs crowded me like mad shoppers on black Friday, jostling and tugging, refusing to queue up or take a number for service. Then my computer, which had been suffering some maladies for the previous three months,...
