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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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In spiritual direction, people come to me to become present with whatever is happening in their spiritual lives, at that moment. The goal is not to change, fix, or improve
January 14, 2024
I’m writing to you from the New York Public Library and have a confession to make. As a native New Yorker, I’ve walked past this international treasure hundreds of times
January 13, 2024
My favorite Christmas gift this year. Every weekday morning for nearly two months, I have dutifully showed up at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus with a full bladder and an empty
January 12, 2024
Yet, while our 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond are filled with monumental transitions, we have no rituals to mark them. Women go through menopause. Men go through andropause. Our kids
January 11, 2024
However, an academic white paper shows it’s actually the year before a milestone birthday when you’re most likely to initiate serious changes in your life. Although humans measure time using
January 10, 2024
For all kinds of reasons, we lose track of our self along the way. It may be the desire to leave our shame and stories behind. It may be the
January 9, 2024
I’ve captured some of my thoughts on these reasons in this brief video and a quick outline of the 12 Reasons (including the epigraph that starts each chapter), which is
January 8, 2024
Dear Chip and MEA, I thought the above title was more upbeat and would grab your attention more than the other one I’ve been doing many interviews about, namely, “I’m
January 7, 2024
A definition of “come into one’s own” is “to become fulfilled.” When we come into our own, we’re expressing a maturity and an authenticity that comes from acting in integrity
January 6, 2024
Lately, I’ve been saying, “I’m raw and imperfect,” and that feels just right to me. It may be my answer for the rest of my life and THAT might just
January 5, 2024
* “There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to
January 4, 2024
Given that MEA’s “Great Midlife Edit” is a core part of our curriculum, I was curious to read Leidy Klotz’s book “Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less.” Let me start
January 3, 2024
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