listen closely

Today's message to me, from the Universe:

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Continue to learn.
Appreciate your friends.
Do what you love.
Love as if this is all there is.
– Mary Anne Radmacher

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.
~ Peter Henry Abrahams, The View From Coyaba, 1985

The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little. - Hermann Smith-Johannson, 103-year-old cross-country skier, quoted in The New York Times, March 20, 1979