Leave Your Mark — essays and old wisdom on living well.
Reflections One of the richest men alive sleeps in a five-bedroom house he paid $31,500 for, because the disciplined, non-self-indulgent decision, repeated for sixty-five years, beat every flashy one he could have made instead.
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Reflections Strangers who met him once, years ago, for ninety seconds, keep posting the same story: he remembered their name, their kid's name, the thing they mentioned in passing.
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Reflections He keeps going viral for the same unremarkable act: giving up his seat, sitting with a stranger, actually being where he is.
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Reflections Sixty years into a career she didn't need anymore, she's still opening the gates to a theme park she built so kids from her hometown could keep their parents employed.
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Reflections Be water, making its way through cracks. Lee meant it as combat advice. It works just as well as a theory of how to live.
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Reflections Jesus pointed at a field of flowers and told a crowd of anxious people to look at how hard the flowers were not working. It is still good advice, and still hard to take.
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Reflections A Zen teacher told his American students that the beginner has it better than the expert. Not as encouragement — as an actual claim about how minds get stuck.
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Reflections Steve Martin became famous seemingly overnight in the late 1970s. The overnight part took ten years, and he wrote a whole memoir just to set the record straight.
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Reflections A 27-year-old poet wrote letters to a teenage cadet who wanted to know if his poems were any good. Rilke barely answered that question — and instead gave advice that's outlasted both of them.
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Reflections John Muir spent years walking into the Sierra Nevada to get away from people. He came back calling it 'going home.' The wording was not an accident.
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Reflections Attention is not infinite. Whatever you let into it is shaping you, whether or not you invited it.
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Reflections Jesus described a man performing delicate eye surgery on his neighbor while walking around with a 2x4 sticking out of his own face. He meant it as a joke. He also meant it.
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