Why do we build habits around certain mundane activities like drinking coffee? Is it certainty in an uncertain world? Do routines and rituals give us a sense of control and ownership of our days?
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Health is not valued until sickness comes. – Thomas Fuller I’m sick. And as Elin will tell you I slide into a helpless, whiny basketcase…
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I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos on Gary Vaynerchuk, the painfully honest, f-bomb chucking purveyor of advice on social media. I even got his…
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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier. – Alfred Lord Tennyson New Year’s resolutions for me are…
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“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.” —Lau Tzu
There is no instruction manual for this: When we know someone close to us is going to die and can do nothing to change the course yet would if we could.
My dad and I are are starting to say “so long” to each other. His cancer, discovered over the 4th of July, is terminal. We don’t know how much time he has. The doctors say a few weeks or a few months. There is no cure and no way to stop the cancer.
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