“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”

Trish Deseine

Illness starts with an I and wellness starts with a we

The modern elder is someone who is curious as they are wise. This is a quote from chip conley

The goal is to move from can do it to conduit

I’m not the sage on the stage. I’m the guide on the side.

The purpose of life is to find your gift, the work of life is to development and the meaning of life is to give it away.

“The final way to attain personal freedom is to prepare ourselves for the initiation of the dead, to take
death itself as our teacher. What the angel of death can teach us is how to be truly alive. We become
aware that we can die at any moment; we have just the present to be alive. The truth is that we don’t
know if we are going to die tomorrow. Who k

You’re Here for Such a Time as This, and No One Can Take Your Place

There has never been another moment in history quite like this one. And you are here for such a time as this.

You’re called to offer what God has placed within you to our world right here, right now. No one else will live the exact amount of time you will, in the place you will, with

Today

By Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight
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There are the things we fear that we should, and the things that we should fear but don’t.

Most people fear dying. Most people don’t fear, don’t care, that they are living a kind of death.

Agrippinus, one of the great Stoics of Nero’s time, refused to compromise his belief or to keep a low profile even though it put him in danger of running afoul of