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Recently, I started thinking about what music could accompany each of these stages, not as background noise but as a score — the way filmmakers use sound to guide our emotions through a story. For the ending, nothing feels more poignant than Brian Eno’s “An Ending (Ascent).” Often described as the godfather of ambient music, ...
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When I was an ambitious 19-year-old working in my uncle’s competitive, macho commercial real estate brokerage company, I was assigned three books to read that were meant to be gospel:
February 20, 2024
If I were to distill the fastest path to feeling a sense of purpose, it would be based on this shortcut set of questions: What excites you? What agitates you?
February 19, 2024
I recently found myself on life’s Route 66 and it caused me to reflect on the journey I took in my 65th year when I was invited to MEA. MEA
February 18, 2024
More people turn sixty-five each day now in America than are born and, by 2030, the number of people over sixty will outnumber those under eighteen. We are entering a
February 17, 2024
When Jenny first walks on stage, you wouldn’t expect this demure, retired woman to have over fifty years of experience as a musician, including being a backup vocalist for AC/DC
February 16, 2024
As reported in the New York Times, Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote in his diary that he might not run for a second term in 1956 because there was a need
February 15, 2024
Just like you go to the gym to revitalize your aging body, maybe you need to go to a workshop to revitalize your atrophied relationship. Whether you’ve been together two
February 14, 2024
I believe midlife lasts longer than the twenty years between 40 and 60, which was part of the reason I wrote “Learning to Love Midlife.” I don’t believe there’s a
February 12, 2024
The New Scientist magazine recently released the results of their study of Spanish centenarians and found that the most common qualities were: Sociable Positive-minded Strong in the face of adversity
February 12, 2024
***********“Whatcha doin’ Honey? “ “Planning a trip to the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, then Okinawa, Japan, next is Sardinia, Italy, Ikaria, Greece, and last, Loma Linda, California.”
February 11, 2024
There is an old adage that “it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.” We are all fellow-travellers on our journey through life with 8 billion others who offer
February 10, 2024
They’re also strategically remote. These are not commuter schools. They require a pilgrimage to a liminal place that feels a little foreign. As we believe at MEA, change your habitat
February 8, 2024
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