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August 12, 2019

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Bronnie Ware: Living Without Regrets

“Bronnie Ware is an author and speaker whose bestselling book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, is based on her time as a palliative care worker. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Bronnie outlines these five major life regrets with Tami Simon and discusses the experiences in end-of-life care that inspired them. Bronnie explains how most regrets arise from a lack of courage and why people are willing to share so openly during their last days. Tami and Bronnie speak on the healing power of sharing our most vulnerable selves, even if it’s in a letter that we never send. Finally, they talk about maintaining trust in the flow of life and why happiness is ultimately a choice.” { read more }

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Read Ware’s article on ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying’ here. { more }

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August 11, 2019

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How Cultural Differences Shape Gratitude

“Most of what we know about it [gratitude] comes from studying Americans–and, specifically, the mainly white American college students from the campuses where researchers work. That creates a cultural bias in the science, and that’s why more and more researchers are exploring what gratitude looks and feels like in a range of cultures.” This article shares more. { read more }

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Take the opportunity to ask someone from a different culture about their relationship to gratitude.

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August 10, 2019

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A Green Approach to Gun Control

“Tajinder Singh, 47, a farmer in the North Indian state of Punjab, applied for a gun license. He told the authorities that he needed a revolver for self-defense. While tending to his 20 acres of land, he often had to walk long hours to reach home after nightfall. He wanted to protect himself from wild animals and bands of armed robbers. Once the background checks were completed in June this year, Singh was told he had to fulfill one more condition to get his gun. He had to submit two photos: One showing him planting 10 saplings on his property, and then another with the thriving trees one month later.” { read more }

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For more inspiration here’s a fascinating interview with David Milarch: “The Man Who Planted Trees.” { more }

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August 9, 2019

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A Young Poet Tells the Story of Darfur

Emtithal “Emi” Mahmoud writes poetry of resilience, confronting her experience of escaping the genocide in Darfur in verse. She shares two stirring original poems about refugees, family, joy and sorrow, asking, “Will you witness me?” { read more }

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In what ways do you bear witness to the lives around you?

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Getting Stuck in the Negative (and How to Get Unstuck)

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August 8, 2019

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Mercy Beyond Borders

Sister Marilyn Lacey is committed to go where the need is great, which, in the case of Mercy Beyond Borders, includes South Sudan and Haiti. The mission of Mercy Beyond Borders is to forge ways for women and girls in extreme poverty to learn, connect and lead by providing educational, economic and empowerment opportunities, bringing hope to areas where there was no hope. This hope is witnessed in the faces of a large group of girls attending school for the first time. And it is seen in the light beaming from an 89 year old woman whose dream was to be able to write her name before she dies, when she fulfills that dream. { read more }

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For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Sr. Marilyn Lacey. More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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August 7, 2019

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Toni Morrison: On Borders and Belonging

“What does home mean and where do we anchor our belonging in a world of violent alienation and alienating violence? I use “alien” here both in the proper etymological sense rooted in the Latin alienus, “belonging to another,” and in the astrophysical sense of “from another planet,” “not human,” for the combined effect of a dehumanizing assault on belonging for those treated and mistreated as alien to a country or a community. That, and some hint of the remedy for it, is what Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 — August 5, 2019) — one of the titanic thinkers and writers of our time, and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature — returns to again and again…” { read more }

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For more inspiration, read this passage by Toni Morrison: “Be Your Own Story” { more }

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August 6, 2019

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Jane Baker: An Artist Who Gives It All Away

One day, San Francisco artist Jane Baker realized something. Now she operates from a new place — new, but also very old: “I don’t know art history that well, but it is only in the last few hundred years that art has been a commodity. Before that, most artists were doing it out of their love for, frankly, for God or their church. Most of the art that’s been made has not been made for money. So I’m standing with a group that has been around for a lot longer! It’s not a weak, touchy-feely place. What I’ve started feeling is that, yes, they really knew what was right! And it lasted a long time before this particular period we are all in.” Baker has a practice of donating one hundred percent of the income from sales of her artwork to charities. She shares more in this engaging interview. { read more }

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Consider how your own art making can rest on a foundation of service.

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