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There's the isolation that comes from standing your ground, and there's the one that comes from never trying. What choosing one over the other actually

A biblical word for setting things free — debts forgiven, land returned — borrowed for the year I turned sixty. On what returned to me,

I have attended events that genuinely changed my life. The difference is that I didn't know it at the time.

What will I leave behind that made a genuine difference to someone else? What idea, habit, relationship, or work will outlive my physical presence in

Saudade has been described as a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy — the intersection of melancholy and nostalgia.

This is not going to be a self-congratulatory letter — much like the posts that populated social media the next day — extolling “how I