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Up all night

Up all night

PoetryJennifer PhillipsSeptember 19, 2024hope, sleep, uncertainty, wildness, unknowing, unfolding

There will be days

There will be days

Life, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsMay 25, 2023love, awe, unknowing, not knowing, noticing, grief, death, life, life cycle, uncertainty

When lost in fog

When lost in fog

PoetryJennifer PhillipsMarch 2, 2023seeking, lost, Rilke, listening, rest, enough, uncertainty

A gentler way of seeking

A gentler way of seeking

Philosophy, LifeJennifer PhillipsMarch 1, 2023Rilke, grateful dead, jan richardson, discernment, seeking, seeker, gentle, ease, questions, uncertainty, agnostic, not knowing, unknowing

Things that will not be hurried

Things that will not be hurried

Poetry, CreativityJennifer PhillipsJanuary 26, 2022Slow Thinking, Time, Snails, Whales, Barbecue, Tides, slow, uncertainty

Freedom from procrastination

Freedom from procrastination

Work, CreativityJennifer PhillipsJanuary 3, 2022procrastination, failure, mistakes, perfectionism, authenticity, uncertainty, creativity

Bearing witness

Bearing witness

Justice, LifeJennifer PhillipsSeptember 21, 2021witness, uncertainty, not knowing, compassion

How to do nothing

How to do nothing

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsJuly 12, 2021Chaplaincy, do nothing, success, outcomes, grief, presence, uncertainty

I don’t know how to do this.

I don’t know how to do this.

Philosophy, LifeJennifer PhillipsMay 26, 2021COVID, not knowing, uncertainty

Love note from a muon

Love note from a muon

FictionJennifer PhillipsApril 15, 2021sci-fi, muon, physics, uncertainty

Uncertainty by design

Uncertainty by design

Philosophy, WorkJennifer PhillipsApril 13, 2021Physics, Einstein, Justice, uncertainty

Remember you must die

Remember you must die

Life, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsMarch 29, 2021death, memento mori, empathy, mortality, uncertainty

Unfolding

Unfolding

Life does not proceed by leaps and bounds. It unfolds. At any given moment, it is the manifestation of a thousand transitions. - Amor Towles

Life, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsOctober 12, 2019Time, Kairos, Presence, Patience, Urgency, Martin Luther King, MLK Jr., uncertainty

Order ➔ Disorder ➔ Reorder

Order ➔ Disorder ➔ Reorder

“There’s no nonstop flight from order to reorder. You’ve got to go through the disorder.” - Richard Rohr

Life, WorkJennifer PhillipsJuly 24, 2019Trust, Discomfort, Impermanence, Hope, Krista Tippett, Radical Change, Growth, uncertainty

Softer Answers

Softer Answers

We face so many questions as we move through life. The intellect alone can’t answer them all.

LifeJennifer PhillipsJuly 1, 2019Indigo Girls, Mindfulness, Octopus, Mary Poppins, Kindness, uncertainty

Genius hesitates.

Genius hesitates.

A lesson on the importance of slow thinking, via Einstein and modern physicist Carlos Rovelli.

Work, Philosophy, BooksJennifer PhillipsSeptember 21, 2018Einstein, Slow Thinking, Physics, Quiet, Mindfulness, uncertainty

"Live the questions now."

"Live the questions now."

Are you wading through uncertainties in work and life? Live the questions.

Poetry, Strategy, PhilosophyJennifer PhillipsJuly 27, 2017Rilke, Strategy, Philosophy, Privilege, uncertainty

Everything I Know I Learned From Shakespeare

Everything I Know I Learned From Shakespeare

Here at JLP Strategy, I love a good hallelujah chorus.

EnrichmentJennifer PhillipsSeptember 19, 2016Seminars, Liberal Arts, Slow Thinking, Ethics, Strategy, uncertainty