06/16/2026
Fellow Dullards, I am alive 🙏🏼🤪
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Boy, if there's not something about illness that reinvigorates your gratitude, zest for life, and humility. After nearly 3 whole days of a high fever while battling strep, I am happy to be standing upright. 😂 Of course when you're that miserable and in bed all day, you have a lot to ponder.
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The older I get, the more I can see the deep, dynamic wisdom available in each close encounter with what feels like, and sometimes is, death. Whether physical death or metaphorical or egoic, the journey through is the same feat in many ways.
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It really is true that our capacity to experience the best things in life comes only as a consolation prize for being scrappy enough to get through the sh*t.
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The amount you experience pain, is the capacity you have to fully experience health. When you have lived in fear a lot, you have the capacity to fully experience true courage. When you've known sadness intimately, happiness is that much sweeter. And so on and so on. These polarities deepen in tandem - you can't cheat one to win the other.
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Why share this? Am I just "painfully happy" to be able to swallow whole food again? Yes. And. I hope whoever reads this is reminded that whatever seems dark or difficult in life right now is also building within you, the capacity, the foundation, and the blueprint for a deeper, more positive, and beautiful experience.
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If you're reading this, I love you! Take good care of yourself - you are most worthy 🤍
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First time posting. No bananas...shoe size 9.5. 70 year old trapped in a 30 year old's body.