A good friend of mine was telling me recently about a funeral of this amazing woman who had died. She was in her 70s and had run a camp for years and years. Apparently the woman who had died was famous for saying that "you might not be able to stop the bad things from happening to your in life, but you can stop the good things from happening." I liked that. I liked that a lot. I asked my friend to repeat it to me again and again.
Sadly, we all know the sadness of the bad things, the ones you can't avoid, the ones that bring you to your knees- violence, sickness, death, etc... I was so sad the other day to hear about the death of Dean Potter, one of the most inspiring climbers of my generation. He was an incredible spirit, a person who seemingly lived at the bittersweet edge. No ropes, no fear. But what about the good things? God forbid we miss out on the good things, the ones that balance out the inevitable limitations/bad stuff of life. Earlier I wrote about my friend Andrew who was the master of 'yes' to life's good things, so much so that he created goodness and love out of bad things, the laughing Buddha incarnate in a way. He had depth but also levity, really depth through his levity.
Sadly, we all know the sadness of the bad things, the ones you can't avoid, the ones that bring you to your knees- violence, sickness, death, etc... I was so sad the other day to hear about the death of Dean Potter, one of the most inspiring climbers of my generation. He was an incredible spirit, a person who seemingly lived at the bittersweet edge. No ropes, no fear. But what about the good things? God forbid we miss out on the good things, the ones that balance out the inevitable limitations/bad stuff of life. Earlier I wrote about my friend Andrew who was the master of 'yes' to life's good things, so much so that he created goodness and love out of bad things, the laughing Buddha incarnate in a way. He had depth but also levity, really depth through his levity.
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