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It All Depends Eventually, each of us isasked to put all we knowinto what’s before us. It might be helping a turtlecross a road or bringingorange juice to a neighborwho can’t walk after surgery. Or listening to your mothergrieve your father one moretime. Or hiding those beinghunted in a genocide. Though it’s harder in a ...
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The eyes may be the window to one’s soul, but the gut is the window to one’s wisdom. The gut is often called our “second brain” for good reason—it holds
April 21, 2025
I see them everywhere: people standing in elevators, at bus stops, in line at grocery stores—their eyes fixated on their phones. And yes, I’m guilty of this too. I call
April 20, 2025
There’s an old story of a child who comes home and says, “mom, mom mom…” (for those of us with kids, we’ve been there). Mom, of course, is busy with
April 19, 2025
We don’t need to live longer. We need to live deeper. And that doesn’t require a plane ticket or a new guru. It starts with this moment. This breath. This
April 18, 2025
As we write about in our Anatomy of a Transition free ebook, most personal or professional transitions can be mapped out into three stages: the ending, the messy middle, and
April 17, 2025
Rather than feeling befuddled or stuck, maybe it’s time to relish and release. Both of these words come from the “relaxare” French and Latin root. Relish is about loosening into
April 16, 2025
And, yet, our modern tendency is NOT to simplify, but to complicate. When we’re younger, we might have thought that a simple life is a boring life. But, by the
April 15, 2025
Thanks to MEA alum Anne Auburn shared this wise 22-minute video about the whispering soul. This Buddhist insight about how life can be lived after 60. It’s quite beautiful and
April 14, 2025
18th Century Philosopher Edmond Burke noted that “The first and simplest emotion we discover in the human mind is curiosity.” Curiosity is an intrinsic aspect of human development, observable from
April 13, 2025
I admire Jerry’s courage in publishing this Call to Action and look forward to co-leading a workshop with him in Santa Fe May 5-10, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of
April 12, 2025
“I belong here’ means that I belong here on this planet, where I have seldom felt safe or normal. It means that I belong here in this body, which I
April 11, 2025
We live in a time and society in which we warehouse wisdom in nursing homes and retirement communities. We’ve lost any sense of community ritual to help share the wisdom.
April 10, 2025
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