A few years back, I had the honor to work with an organization in Hawaii. This client has been in existence for 150 years and they are deeply rooted in the Hawaiian culture. In order to get to know them and the culture, I wanted to get a deeper understanding of what doing meaningful business in Hawaii might mean.

Isn’t it odd how our truth might elude our primary language? Sometimes you have to go halfway across the world to find the perfect word. I loved the French expression “joie de vivre” so much that I named my boutique hotel company after that exquisite phrase.

As I outlined in this blog post entitled “What % of Your Adult Life is Still Ahead of You?” we vastly underestimate our future while occasionally dwelling on the past. Then, along comes this recent NY Times article, “If You Live To 100, You’ll Need More Than Money.”

My father grew up on the shores of a small town in Puerto Rico. A little town fondly called Boca Chica. Small mouth. He often referred to it however as “small kiss” as the memories from that beachside town still softly kiss his forehead everyday.

When you hear the word “Ageism,” what does it conjure up? For me, I think of employment discrimination against people with a few more wrinkles. Or I think about women in Hollywood who aren’t cast as romantic leads after age forty (“Sexism” rears its ugly head there as well).

Easter is important to me as a Christian. That said, I believe it contains a powerful message for all people, no matter your religious beliefs or if you have any at all. All great teachers and prophets, even those who rely on science and psychology for their inspiration, contain a similar positive life view if we chose to see it.

You were first introduced to Lisa Carmel a few weeks ago when she wrote a guest post called, “How Do You Use Your Voice?” She’s a very active member of the MEA alumni community having come to Baja for both a workshop and Sabbatical Sessions while also participating in MEA Online.

“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that...he is going to be a beginner all his life.” - Robin Collinwood

Today, we have six generations of adults inhabiting our planet. The original 20th-century premise of adulthood learning revolved around the simple idea that we would learn until early adulthood and then use that learning for the rest of our lives.

Chip’s Note: Mike Land traveled from Texas to Baja by himself and left two weeks later part of a new family. Yesterday’s Wisdom Well featured Mike’s rock balancing abilities. Here’s an email that he wrote a day after he left Baja to his fellow Sabbatical Session friends.