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What We Have to Give
Season 6 Episode 355
If generosity builds character, then what is true generosity?
And can generosity heal some of the harmful elements of the law?
Maybe that depends on w…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Optimism of Generosity
Season 6 Episode 354
Sometimes I think, how is it even appropriate to talk about optimism?
Every day there's another shooting, tragedy, political or legal debacle.
And yet…
3 years, 8 months ago
Generosity for Ourselves Right Now
Season 6 Episode 353
In such a difficult moment can generosity help?
Not philosophically, but the practice of generosity?
Let's start with ourselves and see if it does. It …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Impossibility of Perfection
Season 6 Episode 352
To aspire to the unattainable, and imagine the impossible, in a sense we're making a deal with ourselves.
We're agreeing that no matter how dedicated…
3 years, 8 months ago
Re - Imagining the Law
Season 6 Episode 351
Imagination.
It's not the first world that comes to mind when I think of the law. But what if it were?
What if we could reimagine ourselves and in doin…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Fine Art of Letting Go
Season 6 Episode 350
I've told this story so often, about how, after I'd stopped practicing law for quite a while, my partner, seeing how frantically I was working, said,…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Compatibility of Kindness
Season 6 Episode 349
Is it my imagination or is there a general sense in the law that if we're kind, to ourselves or anyone else, we'll be perceived as weak? Or not just …
3 years, 10 months ago
Lighting Up the World, One Lawyer at a Time
Season 6 Episode 348
Mindful lawyering: it's not complicated but it's also not easy. Because it's not easy to pay attention with intention, to be kind and friendly all th…
3 years, 11 months ago
Finding Peace in Each Breath
Season 6 Episode 347
I'm about as American as it gets - 4th generation San Franciscan on one side and on the other, descended from Jews who fled Europe to Canada first, t…
3 years, 11 months ago
Enduring an Attack
Season 6 Episode 346
When I'm attacked, my impulse is to attack back.
I know it's my legal training, and maybe it's also my nature. At the very least it's a lifelong habi…
3 years, 11 months ago