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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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In fact, when I start feeling comfy traveling beyond North America again, on the top of my list will be a visit to the secular monastery Eremito in Italy. Why
October 11, 2021
The program solves a critical need in low-income communities, where too many people are uninsured or underinsured and depend on community health centers for care. And it packs a double
October 10, 2021
Over time, I came to learn that brief messages with my younger compatriots were better suited for text, WhatsApp, or Slack. Just the same, I wanted them to know why
October 9, 2021
I live in LA, she lives in NYC, but we managed the distance and the years until we didn’t. We’d known every aspect of each other since childhood, and then
October 8, 2021
Let your imagination run wild as you experience these five haikus from Anthea. 1. are human hearts not islands seeking oceans to tenderly hold them 2. occupy the full richness
October 7, 2021
You recognize that this is the ultimate opportunity to offer a “teachable moment” on how to become a good ancestor based upon how you prepare for your final days on
October 6, 2021
When Christine Sperber brought this ten-dollar word to me, I thought it was a bad health condition. Had Christine come down with “a bad case of Ataraxia?” On the contrary,
October 5, 2021
While the paper was primarily talking about chess masters like Bobby Fischer, Malcolm’s book also told the stories of successes like The Beatles, Bill Gates, and Canadian ice hockey players.
October 4, 2021
“There are those who feel that something is happening to and within them. Their tastes are changing, and their balance has shifted. Sometimes they are brought up short by a
October 3, 2021
The key thing I distilled (and can still remember) is the futility of memorizing a whole bunch of disparate facts or numbers without creating a story that combines all the
October 2, 2021
This reminded me of a time when I made a conscious choice to step into a version of myself that I had “not known or done before”… I had left
October 1, 2021
As a late adopter, I found that I suddenly had access to my old friends and acquaintances from around the world. Having lived in seven countries and 28 homes, it
September 29, 2021
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