Everyone knows what it’s like to be under the “leadership” of a crummy boss. This is the guy who has no particular sense of what his employees need or want from their professional lives, and demonstrates no interest whatsoever in becoming otherwise enlightened. He’s in the gig for the ego boost and the paycheque, and precious little else. But those folks blessed enough to have experienced the pleasure of...
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven,” goes Ecclesiastes 3:1. “To everything, turn, turn, turn,” piped up The Byrds a few years later, on a more secular note. Both are right, and none more poignantly so than at this time of year, when nature sheds its summer clothes and hunkers down for its most ungenerous stretch. The changing of the seasons, as dependable as, well,...
The question of what your religion is, arguably among the most historically simple of queries, takes on new complication in today’s increasingly complex spiritual landscape. However, because human beings find life so much simpler when we can put ourselves in a box, we persevere with the line of inquiry. It’s why myriad tests have emerged to help folds nominate precisely what kind of spiritual...
Mascara streaks down her cheeks and rage gathers in her heart, Laura Dern’s character Amy Jellicoe nearly mows down a coworker in an emotion-fueled march down an office hallway in one of the early scenes of the new show, Enlightened. “Amy!” implores another employee. “You look insane!” Jellicoe doesn’t miss a beat with her furious response: “I don’t care...
When Steve Jobs died, the world reeled in elaborate and extravagant response. The passing of a man who had been CEO of a company inspired such poignant, world-sweeping sorrow among a legion of strangers that it was kind of a miracle. Clearly, this man Steve Jobs was something more than one more corporate whiz with an eye for trends and a knack for design. He was a special soul, a man whose divinity was a little...