Live on purpose

You know how sometimes something so simple, some thought or idea you've heard before a thousand times or a thousand different ways, suddenly plays differently to your ears? Maybe it was the arrangement of the words, the environment it was said in, or there was a twist or nugget of truth included you hadn't thought of before...and a lightbulb goes off. You get it. This common idea suddenly shines like a brand-new penny and seems new or exciting or understandable or doable.   This happened to me this week when my brother posted something on his businesses Facebook page (the award-winning Big Blue Moving in northern KY - shameless plug!) in honor of World Parkinson's Day. Many of you know this is a disease that hits close to home for us since our mom suffers with Parkinson's. Part of his post included the below picture: It's all good and worthy of a read. A fitting tribute to the 1 million Americans and 10 million worldwide living with PD (www.parkinson.org/understandi...

A Charmed Life An Interview with Barbara Kerr I can completely lose track of time while sitting and talking to an older adult (which, incidentally, I have to keep redefining the older and older I get!). I don’t know what it is, but I find a lifetime lived with all the experiences and loves and successes and failures and losses and lessons irresistibly interesting. I know a lot of times older people get overlooked and easily dismissed, viewed only through the lens of their current age or limitations or abilities, forgetting a whole life was lived prior to our meeting them. A life just like the one we are living - with hopes and dreams, families and careers, talents and achievements. Sometimes even with significant contributions to our community or to the world. And often they are still making them! We forget that beyond being a wealth of knowledge from lived experience, many have led downright interesting and exciting lives. Some were trailblazers in their field or firsts in their famil...