Latest Reflections
16. The Hand: Flourishes & An Invitation
The Hand is complete, but there are a couple of flourishes I like to add. Above The Hand, I write my word of the year. For 2026, that’s ‘animal,’ a reminder that I’m not a head on a stick. Below the...
15. The Fourth-Pinky Finger
Like the pinky finger, people often minimize this area of life: Play. Play is whatever is play for you, things you love to do so much that when you do them, time is meaningless. For me, two of those...
14. The Third-Ring Finger
The ring finger has an obvious alignment for an area of life: Love Is there really a blood vessel that runs directly from the ring finger to the heart? I guess it doesn’t matter—our culture has made...
13. The Second-Middle Finger
Skipping blithely past the standard meaning of the middle finger, we’ll give it our own: Contribute. If the first finger is Create, the work I do for pure joy, the second is the work I do for other...
12. The First-Index Finger
When I was creating the Hand, I had already retired from my corporate job. As I asked, How then shall I live?, I turned to Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. It’s based on the...
11. The Thumb, More Details
There is an area of life that’s important, but I didn’t want a hand with six digits, so I put it with the thumb: Money.* To phrase it in alignment with Be Well, let’s call it Financial Wellness....
Got enough love?
When my husband died and other changes followed, The Love Bucket helped me figure out how to bring more love into my life. If you’d like an objective method to increase the level of love in your life, this guide is for you!
