412: The Human Connection — 10 Benefits of Proficiency in a New Language
"You live a new life for every language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once." ―Czech proverb Did you know that 92% of students in Europe learn another language in school, and ...
15 Loka 20251h
411: How to Deepen Your 'Joyspan' which will Lengthen Your Lifespan and Elevate the Quality of Your Entire Life
"Joy is the experience of contentment, gratitude, and meaning, regardless of our external circumstance. Joy is not simply feeling happy. Joy encompasses quality of life and the ability to contribute t...
1 Loka 202548min
410: What True Compassion Is and How to Employ It By Default, part Cinq/Five of "What Lies at the Heart of Living Simply Luxuriously"
"Just as we are wired to be in connection with each other, we are wired with an impulse to help, with an instinct for compassion." —Deb Dana, author of Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Us...
17 Syys 202552min
409: How to Make Living Itself An Art, Part Deux (Who is TSLL Written For?)
To look up the definition of art through an academic lens is to discover there is no one agreed upon definition of art, and to my eye that is what makes it all the more beautiful to cultivate in the w...
3 Syys 202559min
408: How 3-Years of French Language Classes Elevated My Experience While Visiting France
The journey of learning anything new, putting in the hours, the practice, and progressing in a controlled environment eventually must make its way into the real-world to ensure any confidence we have ...
13 Elo 202550min
407: The Joys of Living Alone —By Choice or Circumstance
"'I think that's just how life panned out. I had children and it was difficult to have a relationship with a man who was not the father. And I started thinking, OK, I'll take care of the children and ...
6 Elo 20251h
406: How The Essence of French Cooking Elevates the Everyday and is Simple to Learn (even if you don't like cooking!)
"Food need not be extravagant, complicated, or mysterious to be good. Quite the contrary." —Patricia Wells in her Introduction to Robert Olney's Simple French Food cookbook Whether you love cooking, l...
18 Kesä 202537min
405: How to Be Loving to Ourselves which Allows Us to Heal
"Love has the shape and feel of water. It is simultaneously flexible and powerful. It can adapt and roar; it can also be silently nourishing." –Yung Pueblo, How to Love Better We know we need to heal ...
4 Kesä 202544min
