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This week’s MIDLIFE CHRYSALIS episode features a soulful conversation with writer and global nomad Pico Iyer, whose reflections on stillness, solitude, and the inner journey have inspired readers for decades. In a culture obsessed with movement and reinvention, Pico offers a gentler invitation: to go nowhere, and discover everything. At the same time, he talks ...
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Recently toward the end of a transformative workshop week, one of our compadres said to another, “If I could show you your own heart, you would fall in love with
November 28, 2022
Unplugging isn’t always easy. Even when seen as a natural and even beneficial process, we can still hear a continuing whisper (or something louder) calling for an ongoing pursuit of
November 27, 2022
This particular day, I arranged a visit with a couple that had rescued two elephants more than 10 years prior. I am a supporter of animal rescue organizations and hoped
November 26, 2022
Twenty-eight seekers from Boston and Austin, Minneapolis and Mexico City, San Francisco, Toronto, Houston, Spokane and London, this eclectic group was comprised of academics and entrepreneurs, doctors and lawyers, restaurateurs
November 25, 2022
The cost of living keeps going up, but at least the cost of loving stays the same. And, often, it’s at Thanksgiving dinner when we are reminded of the cost
November 24, 2022
it is in the homeless tents you see sprinkled off the freeway and under the overpassgratefulness is in the taste of bitter coffee while sitting on a cold bench it
November 23, 2022
Over the past five years, I’ve seen a marked change in the number of folks who come to MEA in the midst of a caregiving crisis, whether it relates to
November 22, 2022
Much of the film’s first half focuses on the suffocation of small-town life, with George Bailey’s attempts to escape thwarted by his sense of obligation. George’s feeling of being trapped
November 21, 2022
Yet what’s missing from many conversations is insight about what’s awesome about the aging brain for us, as individuals, and for society at large.That’s where an exemplary elder, Dr. Alison
November 20, 2022
Although single family homes have a lot to say for themselves, they have become an expensive way to live—for our planet and for each other.That’s why I am now a
November 19, 2022
There was a recent UK Financial Times essay entitled “Knowing what you want is the ultimate life skill.” I love that. We spend so much of our first half of
November 18, 2022
Yes, I know we live in an ageist society in which age is radioactive, and youth is revered, so I wanted to offer a few sage quotes that might remind
November 17, 2022
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