Mo's Musings

Mo's Musings

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    • work
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    • feminism
  • If you want Peace, work for Justice

    If you want Peace, work for Justice

    This phrase was plastered all over the walls of the Catholic school I attended as a child. As a white kid in a super white place with very little diversity of thought or occupation, let alone race or life experience, this thought was abstract at best: Give money to poor people who live far away. […]

    Maureen Carruthers

    May 30, 2020
    Uncategorized
  • Stuck in the Story

    Stuck in the Story

    Sometimes we are just going about our day, minding our own business when out of the blue we are “acted upon by an outside force.” A car cuts in front of us, we get bad news at work (or, more likely, vague news that we don’t know what to do with), Our spouse turns up […]

    Maureen Carruthers

    May 22, 2020
    leadership, work
    meditation, the work
  • Adventures in Sourdough

    Adventures in Sourdough

    April 1 (ish) Someone of Facebook: These biscuits are so yummy! Me: I do like carbs. How hard can it be? This recipe says day 1: mix water with whole wheat flour. I’ll get some flour at the store this week and we’ll be off to the races! April 15 Ok, that took longer than […]

    Maureen Carruthers

    May 17, 2020
    food
    sourdough
  • Awesome things about being wrong

    Awesome things about being wrong

    When you are stuck, discovering one of your assumptions was wrong opens the door to all kinds of new ways to move forward When you are are able to admit being wrong, it builds trust and connection between other humans who have also experienced the uncomfortableness of changing your mind in public. It’s the first […]

    Maureen Carruthers

    May 7, 2020
    10 minute blog, leadership, random thoughts
  • On doing a “Good Job”

    On doing a “Good Job”

    I was talking to a teammate the other day about work feelings and she said something profound : You want to do a good job, and you want others to think you are doing a good job. She didn’t say it as a great epiphany, more like a statement of obvious fact: of course you […]

    Maureen Carruthers

    April 24, 2020
    leadership, work
  • On Patience

    On Patience

    This draft sat for over a year. So there is some extra patience for you. Say hello to Ruby. You might know her as Vent Cat. She came to live with me in the Summer of 2017. And then chose to spend the first 6 months she lived here in my ventilation system. She came […]

    Maureen Carruthers

    April 22, 2020
    cats, vent cat
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