![]() Now in its fourth year, the ILI is designed for people who have completed their traditional careers and want to spend a year contemplating life’s second act. ![]() Around that time, the Inspired Leadership Initiative at Notre Dame caught my attention. I had published a memoir, and I knew that I needed to keep that storytelling spirit alive however, my cyclical lifestyle - doing the same things with the same people, even fun things like playing tennis and having a beer at any time of day - would lead to mundane musings at best. Collectively, we feel we are beyond the life goals - going to school, getting married, raising a family, retirement - that society sets for us, as if nothing remains but to let others write us off before the end.Īs I turned 65 last year, my love of writing made me feel productive and connected. Individually, we grapple with vanishing social circles, stiffer joints and sleepless nights. But the truth is that, even if that dream comes true, life is nowhere near as sexy and rosy as we had imagined. Most of us toil our entire working lives toward the dream of financial freedom. ![]() However, when that lush season ends - and it will end, for everything and everyone - do we wither and become forever dormant? When people blossom, we likewise flourish. When a plant blossoms, it announces the arrival of spring by producing buds before bearing fruit. ‘If you are open to it, spring will come to greet you, even in autumn.’ Photography by Matt Cashore ’94
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