The Aspen Grove

Plausible deniability

If we’re honest, we’ve all sought it out. It’s a tantalizing proposition. The offer of plausible deniability is direct…

Ideally

Ideally, we’d agree.

Ideally, everything would go the way we planned it.

Going first

If the choice is clear, if the best is obvious, if the food is hot then, certainly, allowing others to go first is a generous decision.

“I’ll have time later”

Is this really a relevant reason to delay something that’s important enough to do today?

Are we the same?

Well, no, actually we aren’t.

Intentional gathering

How we show up to a courthouse is different than how we’d show up to a barbecue with good friends.

This is normal. Environment matters, and each of us are multi-faceted human beings with a wide-range of qualities and attributes. Part of the joy of life is being…

Drip by drip

A garden doesn’t flourish from a flood of water.

What if it was generous?

There’s a theory that marketing is fundamentally evil.