May Sarton’s poem The Work of Happiness, included at the end of this post, gives some indication of how my leaning from retirement into Renaissance has landed me more and […]
I’m not sure why I never thought of the concept pre-resilience before. It came to me as I was updating my notes for The Resilience Mindset workshop at the Cape […]
When I saw the title The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your WorldI couldn’t resist. Published in February 2023, this new book by British science writer David Robson […]
Photo Credit: AND STILL I SING – Doclands I’ve just emerged from a four-day binge of the DocLands film festival, so the wisdom of today’s post resides mostly in the […]
[P.S. An update about the scheduled winding down of these e-newsletters and the Resilience 2.0 course is below.] I got a very different perspective on the age-old paradox of viewing […]
My retirement into Renaissance has provided time – and a bit of an obsession in these complex and paradoxical times – to discover wisdom in “elders” I’ve heard of forever […]
I’m not the only baby-boomer on the planet leaning into retirement, obviously. Besides pragmatic permission from Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, I found a deep and […]
Next week, April 23-29, 2023, is National Library Week in the U.S. I share with so many, daily deep gratitude and reverence for the worlds beyond my world opened through […]
So very, very synchronistically, the week I posted Winding Down These Posts, a friend sent me the link to a BBC4 podcast interviewing Annie Duke about her new book Quit: […]
I had my own lived experience navigating the “oh, shit!” circuit just last week. What neuroscientists call the “Oh, shit!” circuit is the disruption of dopamine when we get a […]