by Doug McVadon | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
The can was thrown from the truck on a winter’s day in downtown Washington. F Street, another of the useless facts my brain uses to shield me from the real memory. I feel uneasy trying to recall. Queasy, nauseous. My gut feeling is that I’m remembering the wrong...
by Doug McVadon | Jun 11, 2020 | purpose
Dorrier Underwood stands for love, peace and understanding as the most true and natural expressions of human beings. We also stand for coming together to confront white America’s ignorance, denial and complicity in creating systemic barriers to this true and natural...
by Doug McVadon | Apr 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Low, low, low. The bottom. The blues. Just don’t feel like it. Knee hurts, back hurts, people’s voices too loud. Low, low, low. The system of a down. Low pressure moving in, the front is coming, an affront to my sensibilities, an assault on my chronic optimism. Tired...
by Doug McVadon | Mar 31, 2020 | Awareness
by Doug McVadon, with an introduction by Nancy Dorrier Let’s not talk about it. Let’s not even talk about our implicit unspoken agreement to not talk about it. There it is on the table, the stinking, rotting fish. Or the hippopotamus or elephant in the room, even the...
by Doug McVadon | Mar 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
At Dorrier Underwood, our whole staff is studying A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin Friedman. Each of us is writing what we are seeing and sharing those writings to bolster one another’s learning. This is one of those essays, by...
