This was some­thing I wrote just before I left the Jesuits. It’s a very spe­cial poem for me, not only because of the things I went through when I was writ­ing the poem, but because in many ways, it is some­thing that still rings true for me today. I am still on life’s high­ways and byways. Look­ing for home.

Look­ing for me.

Beauty and busi­ness are not nec­es­sar­ily top­ics you’d think of as going together, but most of us have heard of stud­ies link­ing good looks and career advance­ment. It cer­tainly doesn’t seem fair, but is it true? In a strange choice of Christ­mas spe­cial, the Econ­o­mist recently took a look at the issue. Not known for its sen­sa­tion­al­ist report­ing, the mag­a­zine nonethe­less came up with some pretty star­tling (and dis­il­lu­sion­ing) con­clu­sions. Among their most galling find­ings: dumb blond jokes aside, beauty is actu­ally cor­re­lated with intelligence.

One of the songs cur­rently play­ing in my room. Meja has such a great voice. I think this became pop­u­lar when I was in college.

We love to acquire and keep and col­lect things which we don’t really need or want (or at least want after a few days!).

This arti­cle is from SIMPLE ORGANIZED LIFE and I think it is really impor­tant for all of us. We tend to have a lot of papers that we do not know are impor­tant or are just afraid of los­ing, so we keep them. It’ll prob­a­bly take years before they even see the light of day.

Life is not mea­sured by how many breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

What defines a life? Will Hoffman’s short film stitches together ran­dom, mun­dane moments from the lives of dif­fer­ent peo­ple. But watch­ing this film, you feel like they are moments from your own life! The move from one moment to the next is non-linear, non-sequential, joy­ous, ter­ri­ble and unex­pected, all at the same time — and yet it evokes a feel­ing of deep con­nec­tion and beauty. Here is an invi­ta­tion to be nour­ished by what each moment of your life offers.