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Beautiful article Kevin. I agree whole-heartedly with this.

"So, then, isn’t doing the right work, and loving our work, the biggest lever we have for leading a truly fulfilling life? Everything else in our lives, alongside and downstream of all that time devoted, will take care of itself in the spirit of doing our most fulfilling work."

This has been my experience in life, and I cheer and respect the integrity you have in relationship to work that suits your felt sense of essence, here and today.

And your article is proof for me of a hypothesis I have, which is that telling our story, the story of our lives so far, and the story of what is to come, is an irreplaceable endeavor for anyone who wishes to work as you've described. It makes me think of the phrase Right Livelihood, which just now in writing this I'd like to rename Write Livelihood. I need to explore my own piece about this! Thanks for the inspiration!

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Thank you Rick. And for the testimony that holding to this principle has defined your life, no doubt with the up days and down days along the way that "test". I'm slowly seeing too, how in the articulating and sharing, the understanding and belief in the principle just beds down all the deeper. The "Write Livelihood" :) YES!

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Work at something uou love..and you'll never work a day in your life!!..

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Yes! And thanks for the weekly comments all the way from Dublin...

and I love the quotation I read and saved once, cited in "Let My People Go Surfing" by the Founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard:

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”

- François-René de Chateaubriand, a French writer, historian, diplomat...1768 – 1848

Oh to "hardly know which is which"...quite the holy grail of "a master in the art of living" ambitions...:)

P.S. respect to all of you like yourself and Pete who felt the calling to nursing!

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