Dan Harris has a new meditation app and it’s great. After a falling out with his partners on the original Ten% Happier app, the details of which I care not, he’s taken some time to pause and pivot to a great podcast and now, a new app called Ten% with Dan Harris . It’s pretty good I must say. One of the few American purchases I’m making regularly these days. (Sorry America.) The app offers guided meditations, led by different monthly teachers, which are largely quite awesome. The guest...

France beckons to me to come and visit. While I have no plans yet, I’d love to return to northern France, to visit Canadian battlefields and graveyards; small French villages and the rolling countryside; cute bistros and cafés; and rekindle the joy of ambling through, taking it all in. And so, I’m studying French again. But from a different angle this time. I’ve subscribed to a teacher on Substack, Learn French with Maud , and she presents the language using life itself. She talks about her...

Last year’s word of the year for me was “grace” and frankly, it was a bust. I chose it as my word of the year because I struggle with it. I can’t define it in my daily life; I sometimes know it when I see it but I often can’t conjure it up for others, or me, when I know I need to offer it up. It’s like clay spinning on the potters’ wheel that just won’t take form. As a word of the year, it didn’t work out. And… that’s ok. Sometimes it’s the struggle that is meaningful, not the success. And...