by Artie Isaac | May 24, 2020 | Poetry
After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Steve Abbott. We met on May 17 for a Poetry Circle during which poets read poems — finished and unfinished — to the others and then comment with...
by Artie Isaac | May 23, 2020 | Poetry
After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Steve Abbott. We met on May 17 for a Poetry Circle during which poets read poems — finished and unfinished — to the others and then comment with...
by Artie Isaac | May 9, 2020 | Poetry
Here is a poem inspired on Good Friday and Easter 2020 by images of the Pope presenting his messages to the world amid pandemic solitude. After the text is a video with me reading the poem, followed by comments from poets Beth Weinstock and Audrey Brahler. We met on...
by Artie Isaac | Apr 27, 2020 | Poetry, Uncategorized
I wrote this, after my sister asked what I thought our parents would have thought about this pandemic. Of blessed memory: Arthur J. Isaac, Jr., born, 1917; died, 1991. Jacquelin Fihn Isaac, born, 1927; died, 2012. String, Foil, and Bands I remember roaming in my...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 29, 2020 | Living an engaged life, Poetry
I wrote this today on a Zoom call with Rabbi Sharon Mars and her Congregants from Temple Israel of Columbus, during a conversation about Mussar and worry. After writing this, I see that many have suggested scheduling time for worry. There are many online resources for...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 29, 2020 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, Poetry
Hello, friends. I hope that you and yours are healthy and resilient. For your consideration, here are three thoughts that might help place this experience in a broader context. 1. This might be your Crucible Moment — the maximum challenge that tempers you for your...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 24, 2020 | Living an engaged life, Poetry
What Care Of Nature? Deer leap our fence, to graze the early springtime grass. I had missed how predictable their comings and goings, as if a daily commute from the Glen to our yards and back. Birds cross above, on flight plans I’d underlooked, with not prey in...
by Artie Isaac | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Is it just me, or does it feel kind of apocalyptic around here? What feels to you like a harbinger of the end? Politics? Virus? Environment? Buffoons? Markets? What are you doing about this crazy world? What are you doing about it? Here’s a suggestion. Make a...
by Artie Isaac | Feb 17, 2020 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence, Uncategorized
“I don’t like telling adults what to do.” I have said that many times. Usually, it’s part of an answer to the question: “Why didn’t you enjoy owning a business?” I answer, “Why didn’t I enjoy owning a business?...
by Artie Isaac | Feb 10, 2020 | Coaching Topics, Leading Peer Groups, Living an engaged life, New Competence, On Ethics
Years ago, a teacher of mine, Ed Burghard — the very first time we met — told me about his Handshake Document. “When I shake your hand,” Ed said, “I automatically make these promises.” He handed me a sheet of paper. The paper described the...
