Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
At the end of his life, the great picture book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak said on the NPR show Fresh Air, "I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die, and I can't stop them. They leave me, and I love them more."
He said, "I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the
world."
It has taken me all my life up to no
... See moreNot because one necessitates the other, but because life is an unpredictable, unmistakable, gorgeous mess, and if you start showing up for it, you’ll realize that the mark of a life well lived, a soul most loved, is not a person who is permanently composed. It is a person who can move all the experiences they desire without scaring themselves into
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Let’s make our time count. Live our best selves. Take the risks, share our dance, belt out our songs. That what we do, even if it’s forgotten after we’re gone, matters while we’re here. That is a life well lived. A fulfilled life.