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Thoughts on the art of living
During my life, I’ve been an expert translator of “doing” into “becoming.” Becoming is doing with a purpose and soul, but it’s still a lot of activity. Poet David Whyte, when he was teaching at our MEA Santa Fe campus, said, “The tragedy of the to-do list is it was created by the person you ...
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I’m not suggesting this to be funny or flip. Loneliness was a major public health threat before the pandemic; it’s all the more serious now. In a recent national survey
October 23, 2021
Most of my memories of being my father’s son are not good. For a short man he threw a big shadow. He was a rager and wielded immense control over
October 22, 2021
I want my last days on earth to be a kaleidoscope of bursting, abundant color. I hope human aging can start resembling what we see in the autumn with aspens.
October 21, 2021
But now, in later middle age, she’d moved into the land of invisibility, a place where many single 55+ women find themselves. I reminded her that hot doesn’t last forever,
October 20, 2021
I was hit by waves of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity). And with each moment of loss and grief, I realized that the money/title/status weren’t that important to me anymore.
October 19, 2021
As my old friend Jack says, “Chip, what are you pretending not to know?” When I’m in full busy-ness mode, I’m pretending to know very little as there’s no time.
October 18, 2021
When you drop a pebble in a pond, it creates a series of ripples that cascade out over the water. In our relationships, our emotions can create positive or negative
October 17, 2021
“Regeneration has two meanings. It refers to regenerating life on earth. And it refers to a new generation of humanity coming together to reverse global warming. We and all living
October 16, 2021
Our answers to what is enough are never final, they evolve with time as we change, as the world changes. But not thinking about, or not wrestling with, “what is
October 15, 2021
How many times have I heard a friend tell me, “I’m just not creative,” and then they cook an exquisite and unique dinner for me? Creativity can show up in
October 14, 2021
A friend sent me a blog post that stopped me in my tracks. After reading Chip’s Wounded Entrepreneur post, I immediately went to LinkedIn to reach out to him. His
October 13, 2021
Or is this because we’re optimistically intuitive about our bodies? Hey, for all we know, it could be simply because we tend to tell white lies to people who give
October 12, 2021
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