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Welcome to The Revelate, a newsletter about surrendering your heart to longing, forging meaningful purpose and finding your place in the world to flourish.
“We have two lives. The second begins the day we realize that we have only one.” – Confucius
A few days from now, Franca and I will begin walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain. For anyone not familiar (here’s an entertaining film you’ve probably already seen about it)
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As you may know, we've had one of our kids here since just before Christmas in order to obtain her Italian citizenship. It's been wonderful having her here—for starters, she's an amazing cook, and also, it's
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Pause /pôz/
1 : to stop temporarily, especially due to uncertainty.
2 : to linger for a time.
I’ve been thinking a lot about pauses lately. Big ones though. Not those vital, bite-sized interruptions where you deliberately slow down for some predetermined period of time and retreat from
On International Women’s Day
Even before turning sixty last Fall and the weight of another new decade plopped itself down on my shoulders, my thoughts turned frequently to the question of purpose. Specifically, what was mine. Indeed, this newsletter is chock full of that subject and my notebooks are
“Reading departure signs in some big airport, reminds me of the places I’ve been. Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure make me want to go back again.” —Jimmy Buffett, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
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Last week I had the good fortune of spending
Welcome to 2025, the year of the Snake, number six of the twelve year cycle of animals appearing in the Chinese zodiac, and who’s story goes something like this: A race was held to cross a river, and the order of the animals in the cycle was based upon
Blunt thou the lion's paws
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The American poet and novelist Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall, True North) once said of turning older: "I used to explain to students…the difference between poetry and you is that when you gaze
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