Medium Short: Catwalking

Not a cakewalk

B. Lorraine Smith
5 min readJun 16, 2023
I walk by this spot a lot. I love the artist’s invitation to sense the emotion expressed. (Photo by me in Montreal, June 2023)

Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I’m up to along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. Reminder: all my Medium articles are linked for free here.

This past week was no cakewalk. I led a couple intense coaching calls. I stretched into week 3 of 14 in the speaker course which is pushing me hard. I waded into the yuck of my former industry. Joni got the hang of taking this human for a walk. And I processed two decades of paperwork ahead of a move in two weeks.

The two decades I’m processing span two marriages, several nations, numerous career moves, a lot of loss, learning, and love. With every pfft! of hand-shredded documents I feel old cells shedding and notice new ones forming.

I’ll delve into a bit of the processing beyond those files…

Sustainability Inc yuck rides again

This week I watched the suppression of dialogue on LinkedIn and was reminded why I stopped earning my keep in the spiritually draining universe of Sustainability Inc. The story is simple:

  • An article in a mainstream American business publication celebrates incrementalism in sustainability, a point made many times before which amounts to something like, “Yay, our ideas are…

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B. Lorraine Smith
B. Lorraine Smith

Written by B. Lorraine Smith

Former sustainability consultant replacing ESG with reality-based insights about corporate purpose and impact. https://www.blorrainesmith.com/