I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.
In 2021, Carlos Fresco set out to give his beloved Labradoodle, Monty, one final adventure they would never forget.
Monty had been bravely fighting leukaemia, but as his condition worsened, he could no longer walk. Knowing how much Monty loved the outdoors, especially the hills they had explored together, Carlos was determined to take him back one last time.
So, with quiet determination and a lot of love, Carlos placed Monty gently into a wheelbarrow lined with blankets and began the journey up Pen y Fan, their favourite mountain in Wales.
What happened next turned a deeply personal goodbye into something far bigger.
Along the climb, strangers stopped to offer encouragement, and then something more. One by one, fellow walkers stepped in to help push the wheelbarrow, sharing the weight of the journey. What could have been a solitary, heartbreaking moment became a powerful display of kindness, connection, and compassion.
Monty, who had always loved people and attention, seemed to enjoy every moment surrounded by care, fresh air, and the landscape he adored.
Just days later, Monty passed away peacefully at home.
But that final journey lives on as a reminder of the extraordinary bond between humans and their dogs, and of the quiet, beautiful ways strangers can come together to carry one another through life’s hardest moments.
George Carlin in 2005:
"They don't want people smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago."
He died in 2008. Nothing changed.
When you’re 5 years old, a year is 20% of your life. And when you’re 50 years old, a year is 2% of your life. This is an explanation given why time speeds up as you age. It's called Janet's law. It states you’ve experienced roughly half of your perceived by life by 20 years old. Or to put it another way: A summer holiday for a 5 year old feels as long as the 10 years from 40 to 50 years old.
But Janet's law can be broken with high agency.
You have agency over the speed time. You're not a passive victim. A better explanation of why time speeds up as you age is because you have fewer new experiences as an adult, so your brain deletes the memories. If you take agency over your life, do new things and create memory dividends, time slows down.
If you live your life on autopilot, you may die at 80, but feel like you died at 20 years old.
If you take agency over your life, you may diet at 80, but feel like you died at 200 years old.