Life Well Spent

What is a noble life?

Art may bring pleasure

and not affect our daily lives.

Business may affect our daily lives,

and not the lives of the next generation.

Academia may change the next generation,

and miss touching the hearts of the living.

Service may touch the hearts of the living,

and miss the hearts of the deserving poor

Charity may help the deserving poor,

and not improve their society.

Politics may change society

and not change the soul.

What is a noble life?

Maybe it is appreciation

by many or few 

of the impact you've made,

great or small, 

whether they know it or not.

or maybe you decide.

Connection and Expression

Some find in religion

what others find in art:

a mode of self-expression

that helps us to feel

less alone.

Revel in the being

Above all the doing,

revel in being;

do it as if it
were the only doing,
you know you were created

to do.