All That Matters

Jan discovers through a friend that in getting closure for past regrets we can find our way home.

·       The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands

·       but seeing with new eyes.       ~Marcel Proust

Jan learns a secret of art and life in the most common (and uncommonly wondrous) of interactions.

Jan shares selected quotes from poets that embrace, celebrate, and inform the promise of living in this very moment. Try one today!

Jan shares a personal story of how schoolchildren marching on City Hall, and their interaction with a famous Mayor, helped forge hopeful news that can vaccinate each of us from negativity.

The luminescence of nature's dancing aurora borealis can be manifested in our own lives, if, as Dickinson says, we "dwell in possibility."

Sometimes people we never really knew early in life reveal the greatest gifts of love later on. How Jan's late brother Mark, a renowned scientist, taught him poetry and grace.

Painting on the canvas of our souls.

Opportunities to meet our younger selves and renew the art of living!

At this time of year the darkness calls us to light fires, to warm ourselves to memories of home . To remind us, we have powerful roots and can plant new ones and there find the good stuff!

A 15 year-old boy teaches Jan about the power of attitude, fortitude, and the awesomeness of a smile in the midst of life's greatest challenge.