Infinity is easy enough to name and nearly impossible to comprehend. The Netflix documentary A Trip to Infinity takes us from an impossible hotel to questions of love, eternity, mortality and what it means to be finite.
What happens when the strength we expected to have is gone? The Finnish concept of sisu offers a surprising way to think about perseverance, surrender, and the reserves we discover in later life.
On this day, August 9, 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden: Life in the Woods, a book that is still inviting readers into the same conversation 172 years later. Thousands of books have come and gone since then. Some were bestsellers in their day and are
A single fall can change the course of an older person's life. That was the sobering conclusion of a study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Researchers followed 2,454 adults age 65 and older for two years and found that
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Christopher Nolan's upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey has sparked renewed interest in Homer's ancient masterpiece. But why has this story endured for nearly three thousand years? Perhaps because, beneath the monsters and adventures, it tells the story of every life searching for home.
Before he died, Indianapolis businessman Terry Kahn gave his attorney one unusual instruction: Do not spend money on an obituary. Kahn did not believe anyone would be interested in reading about his life. He was wrong. When Kahn died in 2021, he left behind an estate worth
Doing the right thing is easy when someone is watching. The real test comes when no one is. Suppose your town announced an unusual experiment. For the next twenty-four hours, every traffic law would remain on the books, but none would be enforced. Red lights would still
An ordinary Wednesday with family, a walk through a labyrinth, and an unexpected visitor outside my office window became a meditation on attention, gratitude, and the quiet freedom of not having every answer.
Why Empty Time Matters More Than We Realize “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi There was a time when waiting was simply waiting. We sat in doctor's offices and looked around the room. We stood in grocery store lines and noticed other people.