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I don’t know about you, but I’m a sucker for great travel photography so when I saw this recent Architectural Digest article on the Most Beautiful Places, my jaw dropped.
March 27, 2025
The old word for having a foot in each world is ‘weird.’ The original sense of weird involved both fate and destiny. Becoming weird enough to be wise requires that
March 26, 2025
When I bought my home in Baja nearly nine years ago, I adopted a growth mindset when it came to surfing as I asked the question, “Ten years from now,
March 25, 2025
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was hooping and hollerin’ when I heard Ted Lasso announced a 4th season will be premiering. That Apple TV+ show
March 24, 2025
TeachersFor directionLook to yourselfFor purpose,Look to yourselfFor inspiration,Look to yourselfFor power,Look to yourselfFor love,Look to yourselfFor certainty,Look to yourselfFor truth,Look to yourselfFor trust,Look to yourselfFor change,Look to yourselfFor opportunity,Look to
March 23, 2025
I believe President Trump suffers from a form of diet-induced brain dysfunction termed Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. To better understand how CARB syndrome affects Trump, you
March 22, 2025
Michael Franti is an exception to this ageist rule. Last week, his new hit “Break Up With Everything” was the #1 most-added song to radio station playlists on U.S. adult
March 21, 2025
Modern society robs us of attention. And, because we’re so distracted, we emulate Charlie Brown listening to his teacher droning on….”wah, wah, wah, wah….” One value in taking the time to
March 20, 2025
“Incredulous.” I heard that word three times last week when it’s rare to hear it three times in a year. I also heard the phrase “moral injury” (the opposite of
March 19, 2025
I had a plan, it was set in stone,A steady job, a mortgage loan.But life just laughed and shook its head,And sent my comfort zone to bed.The market crashed, my
March 18, 2025
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%
March 17, 2025
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
March 16, 2025
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