Articles, essays, reflections, and poetry from Sandy Shugart—one collection, with each work clearly identified by form.
I am reading “Earth Poems,” by William Stafford, and also some of Mary Oliver. Like Wendell Berry, they celebrate the natural world, usually…
Does anyone feel safe on the sea, nothing between us and the deep but a wooden platform, open keeled, powerless Eventually, the storm came,…
We keep a list of plans for building, remodeling, adorning this place we love to live, so it may continue to hold our unfolding dreams, a…
Four times the common laborer laid down to rest to seek the ordinary solace of night only to be astonished in sleep by advent power, the…
It’s eight long years since we walked off the hot terror of the thieves that stole into my head and squatted on the side porches of my brain…
There are times I need to pinch myself to prove this isn’t just a dream, this work that reaches right down through the rich loam of rhythm…
This is my moment It belongs to me entirely An audience of one in a box seat Rocking through the last of the darkness As silence surrenders…
Every night for months, in the solemn hour before waking, when aimless dreaming is drawn to a point of cryptic revelation, I see the white…
“Where are you from?” One of many questions I find unanswerable, along with “What do you do?” and “Who’s your favorite?” I have some stock…
When I was nine we stayed out all night, My favorite uncle and I, on our little hill, Backs laid out on a mattress of thick orchard grass…
Just another peasant girl, born to beat ragged robes on a rock, hands of milk curdling in a desiccated crossroad. In trouble, Lord knows who,…
Deep in the cool understory of a primeval wood we wander where too little light can penetrate to support more than fairy gardens of fine…
From the low well in the center I arise, ashened forehead marked in awareness of every short-coming, immense imperfection driven to the heart…
Discovering the Interior Life of an Authentic Leader
Dr. Sandy Shugart takes readers to the heart of authentic leadership—and the realization that work forms us more powerfully than we form it. Rather than another collection of management formulas, the book explores the interior work that shapes a leader through the pressures, responsibilities, successes, failures, and relationships of working life.
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