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Thoughts on the art of living
Many of you know, as part of the new MEA Homes initiative, we’ve purchased two homes near our Santa Fe ranch campus to create two types of rental homes for MEA alums, SageHouse and ChrysalisHouse. Sage is focused on long-term affordability and stability and Chrysalis is perfect for those people (mostly women) who are in ...
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Many of you know, as part of the new MEA Homes initiative, we’ve purchased two homes near our Santa Fe ranch campus to create two types of rental homes for
March 18, 2026
When people talk about balance, they often imagine something like a gymnast on a beam. But unless you’re Olga Korbut performing at the 1972 Summer Olympics, balancing perfectly on a
March 17, 2026
Image by Jonas Peterson Next February, I’m going to die. Not permanently, I hope. But convincingly enough that the world—and maybe even my own ego—will think I’ve disappeared (you might
March 16, 2026
Valerie was a valuable cohort member of our first Golden Girls workshop, The Betty’s, and she continues to amaze me with her insights about co-living and community-rooted housing. If you’re
March 15, 2026
Anyone who has been to MEA will recognize that as one of Chip Conley’s favorite questions. The first part of the question was unsettling to me. Ten years from now,
March 14, 2026
Consider that we all have a “box of unlived life,” almost like a time capsule from the future that we’re meant to open later in life. Perhaps that unlived life
March 13, 2026
A recent New York Times Magazine article describes veterans and trauma survivors traveling to Tijuana, Baja Norte, Mexico for ibogaine therapy—often after conventional treatments failed them. Researchers are intrigued because
March 12, 2026
But then something unusual happened. I realized I was about to witness a temporal magic trick: the arrival of Daylight Saving Time. I watched the clock like it was New
March 11, 2026
It took dying nine times in ninety minutes to make me reconsider that relationship. In my late forties, everything was falling apart at once. A long-term relationship ending. A foster
March 10, 2026
Both words come from the same old Proto-Germanic root thankō, which meant something like thought, feeling, or gratitude. In other words, a thousand years ago, if you thanked someone you
March 9, 2026
What happens when you keep riding that horse even though every cell in your body knows it’s time to get off the saddle? The horse still runs.The thing still works.The
March 8, 2026
I’m 63 years old, and my body just celebrated its birthday. Not the number. The body itself. For the first time in my life, I spent my birthday speaking directly
March 7, 2026
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