Writing
- Read more: Life on the Slow Train
Taking the train across Sydney — unhurried, unfamiliar, a book open in my lap — turned out to be less a way of getting somewhere than a way of being somewhere.
- Read more: Lift High Your Eyes and See
How simple advice given before a long-ago journey — look up when you walk the streets of London — has quietly influenced my philosophy for living.
- Read more: Mortality: the Greatest Deadline
In a class this week with homeschool teens, we explored the Epic of Gilgamesh with its hero’s quest for immortality, and how understanding the finite nature of life, with its ‘ultimate deadline’, should inspire us to live fully.
- Read more: Crash: Letdown Effect Meets Burnout
When months of intense business stress finally lifted, I expected relief. Instead, I discovered that my classic “letdown effect” illness was just the beginning of the story.