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Harvard Study, Day 6 of “8 Days” Questionnaire, 2003

Q: What is the secret to aging well?

A: Happiness, caring. Watch what you’re eating. Try to get out and do a little walking or exercise. Have friends. It’s so good to have friends.

Harriet Vaughn, Study participant, age 80

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Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz, “The Good Life”

So why the long face? This is a team set up to compensate for an absence that doesn’t exist. And when they lose, what is left is that feeling of absence.

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Barney Ronay, “Meek France defeat could spell the end for ‘non-football’ of Didier Deschamps”, in The Guardian, 9 July 2024

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A picture turning over
Jewel in the water
Where echo saw reflection
Not what it taught her
Invaded by the quarrel
And I denied the lathe
Let me chop down the laurel
A goal I won't escape

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Broadcast, “Subject To The Ladder”, from the album “Tender Buttons”

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Deborah spent the next months simply, working on a series of pen-and-ink drawings and cleaving the past in heavy hours with Dr. Fried. As the world began to gain form, dimension, and color, she started to find the sessions of choir practice and sewing class too fragile a scaffold on which to build hope. No matter how pleasant, sane, or cooperative