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Get Busy Livin’
So it’s been an enormous amount of time since I’ve sent a newsletter out.
Forgive me, but also — Covid. It’s crazy how quickly time has gone by and how much everything has changed since the last time you received one of these. I’m committing to doing it more and have scheduled time to do so (if you don’t schedule it, it doesn’t happen, right?). Like a good person in their 30’s these are things I’m working on, failing at, and continuing to try.
It’s been a wild few months. I’ve made a few awesome podcasts but even those have been sporadic. Working on picking up the pace with that as well, so stay tuned. Some of the recent episodes have started to touch on death and I talk with two people who have also lost their fathers. See below for the links to the episodes.
In general this time has gotten me thinking a lot about death and the fragility of life. I’ve been reading a lot of Marcus Aurelius and his stoic philosophy lately. Something he continually visits is the idea that everything around us is dying and we are on a river that continues to flow and does not cease. One line I really like is the idea that our lives are as brief as the “turn of a corkscrew”, or that humans are like leaves and every year we fall to the ground and more leaves grow in our place. Sounds bleak but it’s also very optimistic and freeing. Once you accept all of these things you can start to live a more focused and meaningful life.
