a daily blog on well-being and how to feel better by Mark Barger Elliott…

Images from Euclid, a European Space Agency telescope that was launched into space last summer, were released this past Thursday. One of the goals of Euclid is to better understand dark matter and dark energy. Reading about this project, I struck by a comment that Jean-Charles Cuillandre, an astronomer at CEA Paris-Saclay, made about this…

I was walking around Paris yesterday when I came across an elaborate mural that covered the entire side of a three-story building. It depicted an enormous, beautiful staircase with a man half-way up holding a large suitcase. At the top waited a young girl clearly excited to welcome this person to the top. You’ll find a photo…

I’ve been thinking lately about an insight by Brianna Wiest, who notes there will come a time in our lives when we won’t feel the need to “look backwards.” And not only that, we won’t feel a need to “unpack the details one more time.” After we experience a trauma in our lives – a death…

“The fuss of being president, the pomp, the press, the physical constraints—all that I could have done without,” shares Barack Obama in his memoir A Promised Land. “The actual work, though? The work, I loved. Even when it didn’t love me back.” A wonderful goal in life is to seek to discover the kind of…

On this day a year ago I began On Emotions, a daily blog where I start each morning looking for a gift that might help me to feel better emotionally, physically or spiritually. This gift might be a story, insight, quote, or an idea. Then I attempt to describe that gift as best as I…

We were walking through Hyde Park and noticed that along with paved paths there were also paths where people had made their own route between where they were and where they wanted to go. These paths were often flattened grass that cut across a field or even grass worn down to dirt. Our daughter said,…