Friday Reflection with Desmond Spann

Friday Reflection with Desmond Spann

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Friday Reflection with Desmond Spann episodes

  • Friday Reflection: December 11th, 2020 - Manage Chaos. Rest. Repeat...

    We have this saying and teaching. Just one more thing, because there's always something, and it's just one more thing.

    Recently we've been using this language too. I don't have any bandwidth for that. I'm running out of bandwidth for this. 

    I'm not sure if I will ever escape this one more thing. I'm not sure if I'll ever have enough bandwidth to do everything that I need to do in my day-to-day.

    How am I supposed to find some relief?

    9 min
  • Friday Reflection: November 27th 2020 - TKO

    Kind of funny when bits of insight and wisdom happens to show up in your daily life. 

    This week was also the week of Thanksgiving. I like to call it the week of giving thanks, to take time to be reflective and I have gratitude for all the blessings in our lives.

    I acknowledge that the myth and tradition that starts this holiday is not one that is very kind to my indigenous brothers and sisters out there. 

    Just know I am grateful for your presence and with that let's get into it. 

    11 min
  • Friday Reflection: November 20, 2020 - Change the Game Pt. 2
    This week, it is changed the game part two. I'm picking up where I left off last week. 
    I didn't realize that, and kind of talking about the realization that I had around finite games and infinite games and comparing it to racism and anti-racism that I would go over my 15 minute limit for these episodes so I broke it up into two parts.
    Alright, let's get into it,
    10 min
  • Friday Reflection: November 13th, 2020 - Change The Game Part 1

    This week I find myself sitting in the car outside of the grocery store. Just when I'm about to head in to do my grocery shopping for the week.

    I get an idea, I get an idea about games and race.

    And I was so inspired by this idea that I decided to delay my entry into the grocery store by five minutes to film a video.

    Complete the grocery trip, not realizing that this five-minute video was a mistake.

    8 min
  • Friday Reflection: November 6th, 2020 - 10 Minutes of Funk

    There is bolder in my stomach, electricity, just humming through my skin at my fingertips.

    I'm teaching class, and every week, we start with acknowledgments land acknowledgments and acknowledgment of the Black Lives Matter movement, and I have to talk about another shooting. I do my best to process, hold space, but as I'm talking about what happened to the young father in Vancouver, Washington. I feel the electricity flowing through my body. I feel the tension in my stomach.

    I subscribe to The New York Times Online. It's my phone in hand. I'm glued continuously swiping down the screen. Refreshing election results, this tension. This tightness, this electricity just flowing through me. It rises to a point where I am unable to function. I have to do something to move this energy.

    9 min
  • Friday Reflection: October 30th, 2020 - All For You
    This week I'm sharing another poem and a question that I want to remember for times like this, a year like this, and a week like this. 
    I do believe the struggle is the blessing. It's amazing how much easier it is to say that when the struggle has happened or only lives in theory.
    I'll share this question that I want to remind myself of and gift to you. I'll share some thoughts about the shooting in Philadelphia. And then a poem. 
    Not necessarily in that order.
    Let's get into it.
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    9 min
  • Friday Reflection: October 23, 2020 - 10. More. Weeks.
    This week, it's week 43 and a 53 week year. This means we have just under 10 weeks left in 2020. 
    So I ask, how do you want to end the year, how do you want to feel in these next two weeks, and what actions can you take to get you there. 
    We know that this year has been a year of crisis and change of revolt revolution of protests and with 10 weeks remaining. We may be tempted to just right off the year, close our eyes, put our head under the covers, rock back and forth in the fetal position, waiting for 2020 to be done. 
    But this year, we'll end the pandemic will end society will move on to the next crisis, and the struggles will remain. So how can we use these 10 weeks to position ourselves in the best position possible for what's to come? 
    It's in the spirit that I share this home with you. It deals with something that I've been struggling with my whole life because it annoys me to no end. So you might be like me if you enjoy talking about ideas philosophy concepts, even conflict. You don't really enjoy talking about the weather or what so and so did over the weekend. 
    Still, I'm coming to understand something about the ability to talk about things and talk about people in a way that helps foster connection. So this poem was connected to the realization, the realization of the value of having a little chitchat. All right, take a listen.
    5 min

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People are unsure of the world and doubt who we are. We stayed busy to hide our pain pretending everything was all good. Now that normal is gone, we are left with ourselves. We are left with our pain, and we are strangers to ourselves.