i. The person waiting inside me

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

In the end, UCLA avenged its loss to LSU and learned some valuable lessons about what it’s capable of. “You can’t give a team confidence,” said Close. “You have to put them in situations where they can learn to conquer hard things and earn the confidence that they want, and they’ve done that.”

“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”

Plan to work out at least three days a week with two active rest days for three to six months, she said. Focus on cardiovascular endurance, building muscle mass and stability in your core, hips and shoulders. Aim to increase your level of effort slowly — 5 to 10 percent each month.

Once you have a foundation of strength and stability, you can begin ... See more

we must be sustained by a sense of what we are for, and not just what we are against

One day as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension. I saw that it was not really dead, but it was merging with the moist soil and preparing to appear on the tree the following spring in another form. I smiled at the leaf and said, “You are pretending.”

When creating an ofrenda (Day of the Dead altar), you can include items like: marigolds (cempasúchil), candles, sugar skulls, pan de muerto (Day of the Dead bread), a glass of water, family photos, papel picado (colorful tissue paper), incense, personal items of the deceased, and traditional Mexican food; all of which symbolize guiding the spirits ... See more