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...and yet we tend to misconstrue living with dying. We live more and more every day, yet many of us don't feel that as we age. We age another year and feel like we're dying more than we were before, in a defeatist sense, when in actuality we are (and should be) living more (quantitatively and qualitatively) than we were before... We can only die ( Read more... )

I did my yearly birthday tradition a day early, today. The sunset over Lake Calhoun was excruciatingly beautiful. And I do mean excruciatingly when I say it. I cried more than I have in a long time. Not out of sadness, but out of pure release, intake, and connection with a lot of memories and experiences past, but also an extreme connection with my ( Read more... )