Family Matters

Family Matters

There’s been a question dripping off my chin for the last year, something I’ve been trying to make sense of in my own life and I hope that me unpacking it might serve some of you as well. And it all centers on my relationship with my parents. But first, a bit of backstory. Family …

Goals are guides to get you going.

Goals Are Guides

Goals are guides to get you moving. This is one of those lessons that it first and foremost on my mind right now, largely because I’m a month into 50-for-50 and, despite my well laid out plans and my devotion to the task, I am already finding myself impossibly behind. Why? Three reasons: Let me …

As a key-dropper I invite agency.

Key-Dropper

In addition to being a cage-rattler, this poem from my Soul Guide stirred my calling as a key-dropper: the small manbuilds cagesfor everyone he knowswhile the sagewho has to dip his head when the moon is lowkeeps dropping keysall night longfor the beautiful, rowdy prisoners Hafiz Once people are aware that they are prisoners, they …

Joe Burnham is an abundance cultivator.

Abundance Cultivator

What does it mean to be an abundance cultivator? For me, it means that my life is devoted to human thriving. Starting with myself, moving on to my relationships, then into my work, and finally into my community engagement. Self Being an abundance cultivator starts in my own life. This means taking care of my …

spiritual misfits are square pegs in round holes

Spiritual Misfit

I have always been a misfit. At the very core of my being, I knew I did not fit within the structures that surrounded me. Over time, I came to describe it as feeling like a foreigner in my native land. I felt like an outsider at school, at church, in the Boy Scouts, and …