This is sunrise over Evian, France last week, where I had the opportunity to speak to women leaders in business, and a few men :), from around the […]
This is sunrise over Evian, France last week, where I had the opportunity to speak to women leaders in business, and a few men :), from around the […]
I am in the autumn of my life. There is no denying it. Grey hair. Those smile wrinkles at the corners of my eyes and the holes underneath […]
In her stunning poem, Good Bones, Maggie Smith writes, “…the world is at least fifty percent terrible, though I keep this from my children…and for every kind stranger, there is […]
Change happens often like an impending storm. The air intensifies. We feel unsettled or uncertain. We have a sense of life shifting and we dig in…or we head […]
My daughter took this photo at the Mauna Kea Observatory a few years ago. We had come to Hawaii for a week of exploration – the tropical forests, the […]
Our wisdom, honed through our experiences and knowledge, is often the highest gift we can offer others. Sharing that wisdom, as presenters, educators, coaches and consultants, is an […]
So many of us have had exactly this kind of moment in recent months – that sense of aloneness in the presence of a vast sky, mostly dark, hoping […]
How might I honor my desire to write and hold fast to the work of my life? That is one of the questions I have been living into […]
In this photo, I’m getting ready for a speech, the audience is settling into the conference room, I’ve taken a selfie to send home to my family to […]
"Life is harsh, crazy, capricious and unjust and wondrous, surprising, bountiful, and beautiful. Both are true. How we navigate these realities is the challenge of living today. We cannot adhere only to despair else we dismiss all that is life-giving. Nor can we deny the awfulness of life; that would be delusional. We must find a way, within ourselves, and with each other to acknowledge, recognize and diminish the dark wherever we can while elevating the good."
Maria Sirois