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The view from the Rockefeller Foundation meeting room, looking south towards the Empire State Building. \u00a0Today I worked in this location with friends Willie Toliver and Kelly McGowan supporting the work of a group of executive leaders in the New York City municapl administration. \u00a0I was struck by how, despite the responsibility and magnitude of influence these people have, that they are nonetheless human beings – vulnerable, falliable and authentic as the rest of us.<\/p>\n
Here is the poem that was created from the checkout.<\/p>\n
We are just poor weak human beings,<\/p>\n
Resisting the call<\/p>\n
Because we cease and desist<\/p>\n
our belief in all we can offer<\/p>\n
Somehow we have created<\/p>\n
single places upon which everything hinges<\/p>\n
and when we are put in those spaces<\/p>\n
we confront our smallness, see it in<\/p>\n
perspective because none of us are<\/p>\n
big enough to be the change others expect<\/p>\n
and we have long stopped fooling ourselves.<\/p>\n
To confront our own smallness is terrifying<\/p>\n
especially when people project bigness on us –<\/p>\n
the scale of challenge, the scope of our capability.<\/p>\n
The I we are through other people’s eyes<\/p>\n
is never the me we see through our own.<\/p>\n
Know this – you have been chosen only to live.<\/p>\n
It is never over until you leave.<\/p>\n
the only line you ever cross<\/p>\n
is the one you choose to draw..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The view from the Rockefeller Foundation meeting room, looking south towards the Empire State Building. \u00a0Today I worked in this location with friends Willie Toliver and Kelly McGowan supporting the work of a group of executive leaders in the New York City municapl administration. \u00a0I was struck by how, despite the responsibility and magnitude of influence these people have, that they are nonetheless human beings – vulnerable, falliable and authentic as the rest of us. Here is the poem that was created from the checkout. We are just poor weak human beings, Resisting the call Because we cease and desist …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[49,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bc","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-Gl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}