“Walk with purpose in life. Do not amble.” -Marie, age 91, in response to my question, What’s your secret to longevity? Homo sapiens has been walking with purpose since at least the day, some 100,000 years ago, that our African ancestors decided to pull up roots and head north, eventually spreading through what is now […]
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[Mental Health—that which promotes the optimization of mind, body, soul, and interpersonal relationships] How many times have you been asked some variant of the question, What do you do for a living? That question strikes at our identity: What we do is an integral part of who we are. And it is a question that
I first read John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage over fifty years ago when I was in my mid-teens. Published in 1955, five years before he was elected the 35th president of the United States, Profiles celebrated the moral fortitude of selected United States senators who, at times of national crisis, placed principle above ideology, the common good above private
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