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# Marilyn Harding

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## Posts

- [Journal](https://marilynharding.com/journal/)
- [The Grey Suitcase](https://marilynharding.com/the-grey-suitcase/) - Mother's Day 2026, Memory Revisited In my locker in Toronto, tucked away behind boxes, is a small grey suitcase. It belonged to my mother and is all that remains of a life of eighty-nine years. As my brother Craig and I moved her from apartment to assisted living to nursing home, I watched how each
- [And When I Die...](https://marilynharding.com/and-when-i-die/) - A poem celebrating the beauty of life and the quiet wish that, when the end comes, it finds us fully alive and unafraid.
- [Mediterranean Longevity: Living Slow in a Fast World](https://marilynharding.com/mediterranean-longevity-living-slow-in-a-fast-world/) - The Mediterranean diet is often held up as the gold standard for longevity—but what people try to replicate is the least important part of it.
- [Dancing Off the Edge of Forever](https://marilynharding.com/dancing-off-the-edge-of-forever/) - The creative life asks us to keep dancing even when the ground disappears beneath us and the horizon refuses to arrive.
- [Movember: To the Man I Loved and Lost and the Man I Love and Let Go](https://marilynharding.com/movember-to-the-man-i-loved-and-lost-and-the-man-i-love-and-let-go/) - A reflection on loving a man through prostate cancer — loss, courage, and the quiet transformation that illness brings to love.
- [Grains of Sand](https://marilynharding.com/grains-of-sand/) - Floating effortlessly, like a starfish, eyes closed, sun warm, sea buoyant and gently breathing. She pauses. Life pauses. Or does it?
- [Unlock the Mystique of Awesome It's Simpler than You Believe](https://marilynharding.com/unlock-the-mystique-of-awesome-its-simpler-than-you-believe/) - From awesome to awe. If you want to change your mindset, you must pause a moment in awe, and wonder at life to discover how awesome you already are.
- [Loving Yourself As You Are](https://marilynharding.com/loving-yourself-as-you-are/) - I nourish my body with wholesome foods, my mind with gratitude and forgiveness, and my spirit with loving relationships. All this I do by loving myself as I am. Exhilarated Life: Discovering Inner Happiness Too often we can’t find the courage or discipline to make the simple consistent choices that will change our lives. We
- [The Man in the Yellow Field](https://marilynharding.com/the-man-in-the-yellow-field/) - A poem about dancing with Death. Understanding that every day is a day to live, love and dance. Death can wait.
- [The Stone](https://marilynharding.com/the-stone/) - A heart freed from grief.
- [Wonder About the Secret of LIFE?](https://marilynharding.com/920-2/) - It’s WONDER. There is a fast ferry between Aegina Island where I live and the port of Pireaus in Greece, but I prefer the slow boat any day. It is a super, guilt-free, time to have an ipnaki (nap) or if we take our hotspot, to catch up on emails and such. On the ferry
- [A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Nuclear Annihilation](https://marilynharding.com/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-nuclear-annihilation/) - My mother would have asked me, “Do you mean funny ‘ha ha’ or funny peculiar?” Right now I mean funny epiphany if that is a thing. I could laugh at its simplicity and I could be perplexed by the peculiarity of the collective human psyche. We are what got us here. Having this discussion. You
- [Depressed or Just Hungry?](https://marilynharding.com/depressed-or-just-hungry/) - When I am tired or my blood sugar is low because I am hungry for nourishing foods, problems can loom larger. I simply choose to care for myself with the rest and nourishment I require for vitality.Exhilarated Life: Discovering Inner Happiness We wilt just like plants when we are desperate for nourishment. The thing is
- [When Down is Part of Up](https://marilynharding.com/when-down-is-part-of-up/) - Whenever I feel lonely or down, I take some time to drop deeper into the quiet space within. Here I find the soft voice of all that I might be whispering encouragement.Exhilarated Life: Discovering Inner Happiness A long and fulfilled life is not one gentle glide to Nirvana. Life can get jagged at times and
- [Media Whips You Up - What Calms You Down?](https://marilynharding.com/media-whips-you-up-what-calms-you-down/) - Media and other negative voices cause stress, which weakens me. I choose strength by listening to my inner voice offering ways to nourish my body and calm my mind.Exhilarated Life:Discovering Inner Happiness Sensation sells news and fear sells products. Ratings rule and you are only as good as the number of likes your post gets.The
- [The Wonder of it All](https://marilynharding.com/wonder-of-it-all/) - When I realize that every modern convenience from aspirins to airplanes began with a thought, I am in awe of my own power to create the world I experience.~Exhilarated Life When I really take in the truth of this, I am made small and gigantic at the same time. It’s a paradox. Nothing in this
- [Unity Consciousness and the Scent of Coffee](https://marilynharding.com/unity-consciousness-and-the-scent-of-coffee/) - A simple key unlocks a greater reality. Deep into meditation – or so I thought, the scent of coffee wafted from the kitchen, through the hall, under the bedroom door and found it’s way to my calmly inhaling and exhaling nostrils. I heard the familiar tinkling of a spoonful of honey being stirred into the
- [Watching Life Pass By from a Port Side Café](https://marilynharding.com/death-and-life-from-a-port-side-cafe/) - Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne Right now I am sitting in a café beside a large church where a bell is sombrely tolling for the dead. The sonorous tone is mournful, but
- [The Rightness of Being YOU](https://marilynharding.com/the-rightness-of-being-you/) - When you are just being you - you can never get it wrong. If you cracked open an acorn to look inside, what would you see? Certainly not a tree, that’s for sure. And yet, within that little capped orb is pure potential. The towering oak is implicit in the acorn, there but unexpressed until the
- [When Despair Seems a Reasonable Response](https://marilynharding.com/when-despair-seems-a-reasonable-response/) - Overcoming mind with heart. The sunshine was beaming through the windows and making patterns across the carpet. After days of rains and high winds along with a little hail, we were soaking up the rays with gratitude. Over coffee – espresso with froth of oat milk – my son and I settled into our morning

## Pages

- [Home](https://marilynharding.com/) - Writer. Philosopher. Co-founder of Aristoleo. Literary fiction, longevity science, and the art of a fully inhabited life — Aegina Island, Greece.
- [The Exhilarated Self](https://marilynharding.com/the-exhilarated-self/)
- [My Manifesto](https://marilynharding.com/my-manifesto/) - I am in Love with Life – all of it! I can say I’m in love with Life out loud – not as a manic exclamation – but as a proclamation that, because I have taken the challenge to live deeply and explore the shadows (not always on purpose) and be awed by the rainbows, I
- [About](https://marilynharding.com/about-2/) - Writer, wayshower, and co-founder of Aristoleo. Living and writing on Aegina Island, Greece — and sharing what a fully inhabited life looks like.
- [Selected Publications](https://marilynharding.com/selected-publications/) - A selection of essays and articles published elsewhere, exploring wellbeing, daily rhythms, culture, and the lived experience of health and wellbeing. Wellbeing & the Body The body as an intelligent system—where signals, not symptoms, guide our understanding of health. Shiatsu - What Exactly is it and Why is it So Good for You? On Shiatsu—where
- [Exhilarated Life](https://marilynharding.com/exhilarated-life/) - Exhilaration is not intensity.It is refinement in motion. Exhilaration is often mistaken for intensity — speed, stimulation, spectacle. But the deeper exhilaration of life arises from refinement:the cultivation of perception, attention, and choice. A well-lived life is not louder than others. It is simply more finely tuned. This space explores the quiet arts of living
- [Quotations](https://marilynharding.com/quotations/) - Fragments of clarity. To refine one’s life is to refine one’s perception. What we attend to expands.
- [Pleasure](https://marilynharding.com/pleasure/)
- [Shop](https://marilynharding.com/shop/)
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