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going back.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #5: If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one …

what would love do?

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #4: That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who …

Mine is not to exhibit my beliefs, but to inhabit them.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #3: It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is …

sentencing myself happy.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #2: Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, …

I lean into the clock. You cry.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #1: We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo …

Trust yourself. Always.

I'm reposting this video about knowing because it is in perfect resonance with a project into which I'm flinging myself – with thousands of others (and you?) over the next 30 days. Seth Godin's new Domino Project asked me to be one of 30 authors to provide a writing prompt …

Welcome to 37days!

If this is your first time here, you might enjoy this video or essay about why my blog is called 37days. Written since 2005, 37days is my exploration of finding meaning in the small thi ngs of life–and of living like you're dying. I hope you'll wander in the thousands …

Remember.

In celebration of the real meaning of Memorial Day in the U.S., an 1876 flag with 38 stars that we hang on our porch for Memorial Day and the Fourth of July and other days when the happy spirit of patriotism strikes. It is easy in our hip, intellectual, urbane …

What I Wish for You (Interview, Part 4)–Let Go of Certainty

What I Wish for You (Interview, Part 3)