July 6 , 2023 /

PASSION, PURPOSE AND PLEASURE

Three stages or phases as a way of being and doing and growing.   First, exploring and discovering what we care about most and why…. Passion   Second, putting that passion into intentional design and actions, what some might call a value proposition as it includes vision, mission and values…Purpose   1 – Who are

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June 27 , 2023 /

FUTURE – FACT OR FICTION?

This week features a guest post from a friend whom I met over a decade ago in Mexico at an RV campground.  We have kept in touch over the years and I receive his periodic newsletters chock a block full of good information.  He does the research and puts it together in his posts.  In

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June 20 , 2023 /

SUMMER SOLSTICE 2023

(Spoiler alert:  This post is compiled from previous, similar ones written for this celebration)   Wednesday, June 21, marks this annual event known as Solstice, Summer in the northern hemisphere, Winter in the southern hemisphere.  Literally, it’s the moment when the “sun stands still” before it starts back in the other direction and for those

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June 15 , 2023 /

THE WISDOM OF CHILDREN

A 3-year-old, Max, asks his grandfather, “Why are you an old man?” Countless children offer keen observations, ask surprising, thoughtful, penetrating questions, filled with curiosity and wonder. As parents, grandparents, teachers and friends, we would do well to seize that opportunity to have a conversation and explore some of the big why’s of life, as

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May 18 , 2023 /

LIVING COMFORTABLY WITH UNCERTAINTY

On August 24, 2019, I published a blog entitled “Stepping Into the Unknown.”  Of some 600+ blog posts, that one garnered more attention, both domestic and foreign, than almost any other post.  I wondered what made it so popular and why, some 4 years later, it continues to resonate with so many people?  Is it

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May 11 , 2023 /

QUALITY OF LIFE

For those of us in our later years, we know what Atul Gawande means as he documents the importance of the quality of life in his book, “Mortality: Medicine and What Matters in the End” Atul talked with Juergen Bludau, a geriatrician, who told him the job of any doctor is to support quality of

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