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May 2011 (24 posts) Back to Life Lift Home
Welcome to Life Lift. This blog is a place where you can find engaging news coverage, fresh inspiration and the straight talk you've come to count on. A place that provides the tools you need to make a change—if not in the world, then at least in your little corner of it. It's a place that will raise your energy, lower your blood pressure and occasionally make you laugh—in short, a place of possibility. But, before we get started with all that, here's what you should know about us: a few things we know for sure.

How we love Martha Beck: 11 years as her editor, her deadline-dictator, Frick to her Frack, Mutt to her Jeff, still she surprises, delights and incites a riot of aha! moments. Take for instance, her column on the 20 questions that could change your life. You might expect questions like, What’s my cholesterol? Or where’s the seat belt? Important, yes, but not on this list. Instead #4: Are {vegans} better people? Seems a little tangential, possibly a lot tangential, until she explains. Asking these 20 questions today could redirect your life, says Martha, and answering them every day will transform it.

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After Oprah finished her last show, the cameras followed her off-stage, through the halls of Harpo. It was an unexpected ending—seeing the producers and staffers, many of whom have worked there for decades, crowded in the corridors.  When Oprah got to the top of the stairs, she grabbed Sadie and said, "We did it!"  That final moment, as she had said it would be, was "all sweet and no bitter." Not a goodbye but a new beginning. If you didn't see the show—or just want to watch those last few minutes again—here's the clip.
“In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love.”— Philip Larkin, from “Faith Healing”

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