These tougher conversations require calm minds, patient listening, and deep emotional reserve … but were coming up precisely when we had the least amount of any of those things.
Leslie came up with a phrase that helps us save them for a better time.
I have been writing down 1 awesome thing a day for almost 20 years.
Awesome things can simple, free, universal, snappy, idiosyncratic, nostalgic, silly, joyous, poignant, or even bittersweet.
I have never been writing from a place of mastery – just one of looking and learning
I recently read the 1995 classic ‘Thoughts Without a Thinker’ by Mark Epstein.
He writes:
“The thoughts in our minds keep endlessly chattering as if beyond our control.”
Here are a few of my favorite pages:
Shoutout to a man I love but have never met.
I was talking to my friend Dede last week when she mentioned she was on her way to Sarasota to have lunch with her dad.
"Your dad?"
"Yeah, my dad. He's 96."
"96?!"
"Yeah. I'm meeting him before his radio show."
"His radio
