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There’s a moment in an interview between Jerry Seinfeld and Howard Stern where Seinfeld offers a line that has been rattling around in my head ever since author Dan Pink mentioned it in a recent MEA workshop: “The blessing in life is when you find the torture you’re comfortable with.” It’s funny. It’s uncomfortable. And ...
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This recent Wall Street Journal article offers a few recommendations which I’ve mixed in with some of my own thoughts: 1. Don’t avoid your age, but don’t (subliminally) advertise it
May 14, 2022
The only visible change is a higher surf with bigger swells and rising sea water bringing the river closer and closer to the shoulder of this two-lane twisting county road
May 13, 2022
I wake up early every morning, meditate and write. My writer wakes up before my editor, so I find early morning writing and creative thinking enhanced because I have so
May 12, 2022
Mexico, May, likely hot during the day, cool at night. Simple enough. Better check the agenda just to make sure. Looks like most of the day is spent in a
May 11, 2022
We were recently at our town campus in Santa Fe on Museum Hill, a 12.5-acre former Catholic retreat center and seminary in a gorgeous neighborhood (open in a couple of
May 10, 2022
Fifteen percent of our MEA students are Millennials, sort of a surprise for an organization called the Modern Elder Academy. Still, they’re often attracted to the idea of a midlife
May 9, 2022
Terry Gibbs and Carol Lisle, both in their 80s, had been partners for 15 years. Due to dementia, Carol was moved into a care home by her goddaughter. However, rather
May 8, 2022
Mindfulness practice is a pathway to deep awareness of self and universal truths, and, in a practical sense, a way of bringing moments of pure awareness to our everyday lives.
May 7, 2022
Rather than working exclusively for one organization, you work part-time in various capacities. Thankfully, the pandemic is creating the welcome mat for this kind of life. As evidenced in this
May 6, 2022
Harvard’s George Vaillant is one of the best-known modern psychiatrists when it comes to adult development. Thirty years ago, he introduced a new term that hasn’t gotten much attention in
May 5, 2022
It’s beautiful to script one’s own purpose, but dangerous to obey someone else’s doctrine, without proper discernment. Join me in my new treehouse in this short video as I talk
May 4, 2022
I feel a kinship with her because she set up camp in northern Baja California, just south of the border from San Diego. But imagine, at 18 years old, moving
May 3, 2022
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