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We haven’t seen this kind of U.S. economic inequality in the past 100 years. Since 1979, the top 1% of earners saw their wages grow by 182%; the bottom 90% saw their wages grow by 44%. As a result, the concentration of money at the top of the income ladder is at the highest it’s ...
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We haven’t seen this kind of U.S. economic inequality in the past 100 years. Since 1979, the top 1% of earners saw their wages grow by 182%; the bottom 90%
I was recently teaching a week with poet and author Mark Nepo on friendship. I took pages of notes and had dozens of ideas and inspirations about the practice of
Here I sit, in rural Vermont, at age 58—enjoying the “messy middle” and plotting my next act.At 58, my father retired. I’m lucky enough to still have him and my
MY SOUL HAS A HATI counted my yearsAnd realized that I haveLess time to live by,Than I have lived so far.I feel like a child who won a pack of
Based upon this premise, it means the older you are, the more raw material you have to be wise. But, that doesn’t always mean the older person is the wiser
As our Baja shaman tells us each week, to an outsider, a ritual may look strange. Why do those Catholics eat a bread wafer and wine? And, yet, to those
This belief suggested we might not have enough food to go around and that Mother Earth will be irreparably damaged by all these billions of people feasting on scarce environmental
The best lens to use in approaching any decision in your life is to choose based upon whether we want to discover who we’ll become. Midlife isn’t about managing your
In our 50s and 60s, many of us find ourselves in a unique phase of life. The demands of raising children often recede, careers shift or wind down, and the
On my 63rd birthday, I reflected on three things I wish my older self could have shared with my younger self.Self-Awareness I can’t stress this enough. Do whatever it takes to
I sold my company Joie de Vivre in 2010 after two-dozen years of painstakingly growing it into one of the largest boutique hotel companies in the world. On the outside,
Getting older means learning how to juggle with intention. It’s no longer about avoiding dropping the balls or worrying about how many we’re holding. It’s about becoming comfortable with the
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