spend more hours outside

"We live so much of life in a box--a car with four wheels, an office with four walls--and it separates us from that chickadee or that waterfall. So I make sure I spend some hours every day outside, and the days I spend more hours outside are the better days." - Doug Bassett, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Nov 29, 2011

the whole Death thing

Yes, I confess that the whole death thing has pretty much scared the daylights out of me since I became aware of it at age four or so. Other people put it out of their thoughts, but as a young person I couldn’t get my mind around it—that one thing you just can’t escape.

Karl Pillemer, 20 Lessons for Living, p. 141