#130. Age and Capacity
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#130. Age and Capacity

Across democracies, questions about age and leadership are getting harder to ignore. Who is too old to lead? When should one generation make room for another? And when does a legitimate question about capacity become an assumption based on the number of birthdays someone has had?

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# 129. Quest and Questions
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# 129. Quest and Questions

What if the life you worked so hard to build isn’t the life you want anymore? In our third chapters, better questions can open new possibilities.

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#128. Can We Please Have September?
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#128. Can We Please Have September?

Can we please have September? In a culture always rushing toward the next big moment, what if the ordinary days aren’t the space between—but life itself?

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#127. Well, That Sucked
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#127. Well, That Sucked

When life opens a sinkhole beneath you, resilience isn’t pretending it didn’t suck. It’s acknowledging what happened—and finding your way forward.

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#125. Halfway!
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#125. Halfway!

There comes a point in our third chapter when the arithmetic is difficult to ignore. Unless we are truly Blue Zone people, most of us are more than halfway through our lives.

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#124. Are We There Yet?
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#124. Are We There Yet?

A few weeks after a medical procedure, I’ve discovered that progress isn’t behaving the way I expected. Some days are better. Some aren’t. And my usual capacity has been replaced by a rather humbling rhythm of activity, rest, activity, rest.

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# 123. Kitchen Comfort
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# 123. Kitchen Comfort

Some days the world feels too loud.

The headlines race from one crisis to the next, and it can feel as though everything is shifting beneath our feet.

When that happens, I find myself in the kitchen.

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#121. Head and Feet
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#121. Head and Feet

"She who doesn't have a head has feet." Discover how one Albanian proverb became a lifelong lesson in mindfulness and wiser living.

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#120. The Pickle Jar Principle
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#120. The Pickle Jar Principle

As the laughter settled, I realized we weren't really talking about jars. We were talking about life.

There comes a moment with every stubborn problem when we have to decide: Do I keep wrestling with this thing? Or do I ask for help?

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#119. Convergence
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#119. Convergence

As we age, friendships, ideas, and opportunities begin to converge in unexpected ways. How do we discern which invitations deserve our yes?

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#118. Agency and Aging
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#118. Agency and Aging

The final blog in the Darwin series reflects on agency, openness, and what it means to keep evolving through every stage of life.

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#117. The Adaptable Heart: Staying Open
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#117. The Adaptable Heart: Staying Open

The adaptable heart remains capable of relationship with change, and maybe that is the deepest evolutionary wisdom women in our third chapter have to offer now. Not perfection or pretending everything is fine, but the hard-earned ability to stay open anyway.

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#116. The Adaptable Heart (Part 1): When Fear Closes Us
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#116. The Adaptable Heart (Part 1): When Fear Closes Us

Blog #116 explores how fear and self-protection can quietly narrow our lives over time. Through Darwin’s lens of adaptation, WonderCrone examines what happens when caution becomes our primary way of relating to life—and how to notice when fear is closing us down.

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#111. Extinction: The Art of Letting Go
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#111. Extinction: The Art of Letting Go

What if letting go isn’t failure, but evolution? This reflection explores how releasing what has run its course creates space for clarity, energy, and a more aligned next chapter.

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