Most Americans find that their sense of purpose and meaning in life comes from relationships and from work. Work is thus a critical piece of the puzzle to “get right” in order to feel fulfilled and satisfied with one’s life. When we are not able to bring our soul to work, we suffer from burnout and depression. Learn more about this topic through these articles.
I have a sense that the American worker in the pandemic and The Great Resignation are linked in the same way that a frog is linked to the proverbial pot of slowly boiled water: There does come a tipping point when the frog notices the heat and reacts by leaping out of the pot. The pandemic gave us the chance to lift our heads long enough from the desk to notice we were uncomfortably warm at work… and we’ve jumped… and we’re still hopping!
I suggest we need look no further for a diagnosis of our current mental and emotional predicament than this environment in which we are flailing and failing to flourish in a flood of information: a digital data deluge!
The most enduring and important insight of this “riding the wave” experience was the deep sense of having been truly and fully alive – being neither in the remembering past nor the hopeful future, but in the immediacy of the present, I knew myself to be alive, to be unique, and to be joined to the great surge of Life itself…
Jean Erdman Campbell, wife of the famed mythologist, Joseph Campbell, and a famous dancer- choreographer in her own right, passed away at age 104 on May 4th of 2020. Although she is now eclipsed by her more-famous husband, for the greater part of their marriage it was Jean who was the famous personality. Hopefully, her own enormous contributions to the world of dance and theater will come to the fore again as we remember a century of glorious creativity…
Rather than seeing a building which had fallen into disrepair as a rotting log that simply needed to be hauled away and the lot bulldozed for some high-rise, Jane saw every fallen log as the potential for a new ecosystem of important lifeforms that would regenerate the forest floor and thus feed the ongoing life stream of the larger ecosystem in which it was embedded.
