Being About The Journey

You’ll only be this “you” once. It’s more than your age. It’s what you know now, what you can still do easily, who’s still here with you, and what you’ve finally stopped caring about. You were stronger before. You may be wiser later. But you will never have this exact view of the world again. […]

Just because you handle the problems of life well doesn’t mean they aren’t heavy. Handling them with grace doesn’t make them light, it just means you’ve learned how to carry them without dropping everything else. Strength can look calm from the outside, but calm is not the same as easy. Other people may only see […]

My life changed when I realized nothing can affect me unless I allow it to. It wasn’t dramatic. There was no crisis or big revelation, just a quiet afternoon when I finally saw how I had been getting in my own way for decades. Before that, I lived as if the world had its hands […]

Don’t lose yourself in the churn of daily life. It’s so easy to get swallowed by the lists, the responsibilities, the noise coming from every direction, until you’re just going through the motions. In the middle of taking care of everything and everyone else, make sure you don’t forget to take care of the person […]

We all have days that seem tedious and confusing. The clock moves slowly, the list of things to do feels both urgent and meaningless, and even familiar situations can feel slightly off. It isn’t always sadness, more a flatness, a sense of going through the motions without quite knowing why. On those days, love of […]

A life can be full and still feel empty if it isn’t pointed somewhere you actually want to go. We collect accomplishments and obligations, we keep things running, but without a sense of direction all that motion doesn’t add up to meaning. Meaning isn’t just what happens to you. It’s whether you can look at […]

You know what we enjoy? Traveling. Not just the big trip, but that whole shift that happens when you leave home behind. The suitcase by the door, the slightly nervous excitement, the decision to be curious on purpose for a while. We love the seeing part. The way light hits a street you’ve never walked […]

Thomas Paine wrote “These are the times that try men’s souls” on a cold December night in 1776, when the cause of a new country looked like it might not survive the winter. He was not writing for history. He was writing for exhausted people who were cold, afraid, and unsure if anything they did […]

The greatest privilege for me was being able to grow up in an era where loving the United States of America was simply common sense, not a debate. We didn’t need to be told to be grateful for this country, we felt it in our bones…it was life itself. It was in the air we […]

There is a holy kind of awareness of God that comes with age: not dread, but clarity. When you are young, time feels endless, so you spend it without much thought. As the years pass, you realize your days are limited, not to frighten you, but to focus you. You stop asking just how many […]