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Nov 17, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I first met Mike Gerson in a college dorm 39 years ago.
He was busy infusing theological words into a legal pad with great intensity and semi-legibility.
That was pretty much the story of every day after.
Even, in recent years, through many, many days of terrible pain.
Writing day and night. Like he was running out of time.
And he was.
Michael died early this morning.
“Peacefully,” his wife texted just after midnight.
Nov 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”
Rumi nailed it.
As true in the 13th century as it is now.
I had not encountered this trilogy until editing a recent Field Notes post.
And now I can’t stop thinking about it.
Over my ongoing 14 years in a well-known fitness cult, I’ve often heard the gyms referred to as lifeboats. Lifting people out of physical and health ailments.
But as a frame for life and leadership, the lamp-lifeboat-ladder model is dynamite.
