Joyful Living
The deliberate practice of joy
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When Did I Decide I Was Too Old?
My neighbour knocked on my door to show me a video she’d made on her phone — edited, soundtracked, sent to her grandchildren in Australia. Three weeks earlier she’d been ready to throw the thing into the sea.
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We did not come this far to coast
I wasn’t looking for Denzel Washington quotes. But a pinned page in Google Keep changed my afternoon — and reminded me why we didn’t come this far to coast.
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The Da Vinci Secret to Joyful Living in Retirement
Leonardo da Vinci had a word for it: *connessione*. The understanding that everything connects to everything else. He used it to describe how he thought about his work — the machines, the paintings, t… · 1,517 words · 8 min read
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The Warm Tofu Saturday — Finding Joy in Retirement’s Small Moments
It was a cloudy Saturday morning in Vung Tau. Joyful living in retirement, I’m learning, rarely looks the way I expected — and this morning was a perfect example of that.… · 1,559 words · 8 min read
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