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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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Rustin was the man behind the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. It wouldn’t have happened without him, and it
December 20, 2023
Rupert Murdoch, who retired as chair of News Corp and Fox News recently, and George Soros, who gave up control of his Open Society Foundations in June, waited until they
December 19, 2023
Emotional. “Yes, you CAN, SIR!” That was said to me by an immigrant Uber driver on a long drive to see my parents. He wanted to coach me into believing
December 18, 2023
I learned so much from the group and gained some wisdom nuggets I will never forget; gems like “you make an impact wherever you land” and my favorite from one
December 17, 2023
Perhaps this is the dynamic of spiritual growth: we close enough to heal and are worn open to grow. Perhaps our human flaw is that we close more than is
December 16, 2023
The mother’s lament hints at the awkwardness of adolescence—the way young adults are poised precariously between childhood and maturity, a time when none of their clothes fit anymore. Middlescence is
December 15, 2023
First of all, what’s the problem? Eighty percent of American federal spending growth since 1980 has gone to Social Security and health care (much of it for Medicare). In ten
December 14, 2023
He “vowed to take that big, upsetting number 60 and remake it into something positive” by deciding to do 60 things he’d never done before. Here were his filters for
December 13, 2023
Such simple yet profound guidance highlighting the value of humility, vulnerability, sorrow, and reconciliation. How might you apply one or two of these four short sentences as tools for bridging
December 12, 2023
This exquisite quote articulates why MEA’s two campuses – one in a sea-level peninsula desert (Baja) and one in a high desert at 6,500 feet (Santa Fe) – are located
December 11, 2023
By 40, I’d created a rigid identity equation that looked like this: Youngest + Job Title = Jen And then it stopped. Younger folks started coming up all around me.
December 10, 2023
How can we give a gift that truly keeps on giving for years and one that is given out of love, not obligation? This year, I’m giving a gift of
December 9, 2023
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