Addison wrote this poem on Monday while participating in a Sabbatical Session “awe walk” at MEA in Baja. The ocean has a thousand moods and yet, we still trust and sit with it. The sky is not controllable and yet, we still honor it.

When I allow myself to settle into feeling how I experience Sabbatical Sessions, or “SabSesh,” as we call it, the word is joy. All the normal Baja delights and distractions are here — the clarity of the light, the sunsets, the sun and shade, ocean breezes, the whales, the workaday magic, and gathering with like-minded community.

We often get so preoccupied with age that we miss that mastery in front of our nose. Is she old enough to run that company? Is he young enough to be dating her?

On our final day of our 7-day MEA workshops, we offer two journaling exercises, one of them called “The Box of Unlived Life.” This exercise may be relevant to those of you who are moving into the last act of your play but feel somehow incomplete. Here’s how it goes:

I used to get paid to ride a snowboard. Specifically to ride a snowboard in a halfpipe. This was my job. You can imagine the cocktail party small talk. A halfpipe is a sum of its snowy parts, and exactly as advertised, the shape of half a pipe- a giant U.

Richard Rohr is an unconventional modern Christian mystic who has been influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism, Gandhi, Carl Jung, Spiral Dynamics, and Integral Theory. He’s written and spoken about the ancient personality typing tool, the Enneagram, and he has a following that may be more full of non-Christians than Christians.

Finding our life’s purpose can feel “just out of reach.” A “maybe someday” idea that we hope to fulfill in the future. But, what if your purpose is within your reach today. From the minute we awaken in the morning, we get to choose our attitude.

Re·tire·ment /rəˈtī(ə)rmənt/ “withdrawal from one’s position or occupation or from active working life; to be in seclusion”

“When you are younger, you get blamed for crimes you never committed, and, when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.” I.F. Stone

A couple of years ago, I wrote a LinkedIn article on “The Advice I Wish I’d Been Given at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50.” Having just turned 60, and being an Abraham Maslow devotee, I wanted to organize my thinking on this subject around the hierarchy of needs for each decade of our lives.