“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.”
—Tom Waits
How do you step outside the ways that society tries to confuse our understanding of abundance and happiness?
It’s hard to get all your ducks in a row when there are just so many ducks. Abundance is great, but sometimes it would be a lot simpler if there fewer choices, fewer options, fewer demands.
What helps you to simplify when the sheer number of ducks gets overwhelming?
Sometimes our greatest sense of abundance comes from the privilege of being able to share with someone we love.
When has sharing brought you joy?
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt
What does economic progress look like to you?
National Coming Out Day was created as a way to encourage gay, lesbian and bisexual people to “come out of the closet,” to take a step, however small, toward living openly as their full and authentic selves. Whatever your sexual orientation, there really isn’t a bad day to take the next step toward living more authentically as who you really are.
What about yourself do you keep hidden that you would really rather share openly?
