#013 - labors of love

Navigating the space between stories puts us up for an immense challenge. We must seek the others to find hope and support when that which we love falls away, rediscover how to grieve for what we lose and praise what is lost, and learn how to remain alive in the face of death. To not resist being wholly taken by awe at the birth of spring, because ... See more

I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you fall in love with the process. I hope you see the point of pursuing passion work is not to drain yourself to create work that eclip... See more

Choose who you want to love and do so fiercely, with your wide-open, Grand Canyon heart. Let the weight of how much you love ripple over the surface of the world and penetrate deeply below. Create something that is uniquely yours with the unbendable intention of someone who is hell-bent on walking through a wall. Be meticulous in its creation. Let

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I guess if we’re talking about joy, writing, and being a fully rendered person in the world, my main sources of liveliness are so human and obvious they might seem facile: 1) loving the people I love with full throttle abandon – my guy, our kids, my mom and dad, our gaggle of brothers, my army of girlfriends. So that’s advice, maybe: make as many g... See more

This lifetime is yours, just yours. You may be involved in relationships and love others, but basically what you make of your life and how you pass through it is your evolution. That is why adversity is useful. In desperation, we begin to pull on our unlimited power; and we realize that anything can be changed, that suffering is a product of the in

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