My friend Jason gave me a book called "A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky" by Sy Safransky, who is the founder of The Sun (magazine). In one of the essays called Riches he says his life was shaped by a line in a Graham Nash song - "Make sure the things you do keep us alive". He said it forced him to "live a life that respected life"...earning a life not a living. This isn't necessarily a novel idea but I hope that my experience in Mexico pushes me along on the spectrum of earning a life vs. a living. I know I haven't just earned a living up until this point in life but there is more life to earned.
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