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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
-Anatole France

This is the second post in a series on life long change called, “It’s Never Too Late.”
As we get older, a few obstacles seem get in the way of meaningful change. These obstacles include

long term habits,
attachment to stability and possessions we have accumulated over time,
physical and mental impairments.

Long Term Habits
Habits become harder to change [...]

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
-Henry Miller

This is the first in a series on life long change called, “It’s Never Too Late.”
Settling Down - A Cultural Phase
The phenomenon of working a single, stable job all your life or even following a single career path is historically new. And in today’s market, it is already fading away as an apparent phase of [...]

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
-George Carlin

This week, except Thursday’s Thanksgiving post, I’ll be writing about making changes and entering new frontiers as we get older. In the series, “It’s Never Too Late,” I’ll share stories of people who have made profound life changes late in life. I’ll discuss the benefits of age. And, I’ll touch on reasons some of us [...]

As soon as I realized I had to leave my home and go out into the world with nothing but my body and what was on it right then, a funny thing happened. I was free in a way that I’d never been before.
-Karen Shanley
Author Mom with Dogs

Here are a couple of my favorite posts I read this week.

Karen Shanley of Author Mom with Dogs demonstrates beautiful story telling abilities in her post, The Steering Wheel, where she chronicles a conversation she had with her daughter about surviving a house fire, loosing everything she owned and the lessons she learned. Today’s [...]

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller

The mouth of the Big Carp River flowing into Lake Superior in the back country in Porcupine Mountains State Park in Michigan.
Most of us do not enjoy conflict. We usually seek peace and symbiosis in our relationships with others, our jobs and the many things we juggle in our lives.
Sometimes though, conflicts arise, and we [...]

Often, when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. I've felt that way many times. My hope for all of us is that "the miles we go before we sleep" will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring - delight, sadness, joy, wisdom - and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings.
-Fred Rogers

When I let go of my career as a junkie at 16 years old, I experienced a distinct sense of grief. Even though the life I was facing had more hope and promise than I had ever before experienced, I was letting go of a huge part of my life and myself. Misery, despair, disappointment [...]

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.
-Angela Schwindt

Tristen enjoying some scholarly research.
Toddlers are great teachers. They are rarely distracted by worry and are always in the moment. Here are some lessons my son, Tristen, has taught me:

Just because you bumped your head a few minutes ago and still have a big red mark, there is no reason to dwell on it. Keep [...]

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