To live a good life is to decide to stop living unconsciously and to make a decision that you are going to wake up to all that is beautiful and holy and that still works and to remember that if you want to have

loving feelings you need to do loving things and you just keep doing these actions that are about awareness and that are about love and that somehow are helped along by learning to breathe.

You know, left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe. And when we breathe,

we're sort of spritz into awareness, and when we breathe we're so deeply nourished

and it creates an umbilical cord between the beauty of life, the awareness of life,

and the beauty of the people who against all odds just love us more and more with every

passing year.

A good life means that you get outside every day,

that you somehow get outside and you look up, you look at the stars, you look at the moon,

you look at the sun, you look at the sunrise. Those are the things that to me constitute the good life.

So every time I talk with Ann Lamotte,

I just feel like I've been embraced by kindness and humility,

love, and a whole lot of laughter. Anne is a multi-time New York Times best-selling author

whose latest book, Somehow, Thoughts on Love, offers profound yet practical wisdom that can really

help transform our lives. In our conversation, she shares insights from her seven decades

of living, loving, and learning as she turns 70 and

releases her 20th book, which is rich with stories and humor and reverence and love and insights,

all told in a way that only Anne can do. Despite her success, and time's worth of insights through her experiences and in somehow,

Anne compiles her most important learnings on love and leaves them as a bit of a

parting gift to her son and grandson. She explores the power of compassion,

community, and our inner lives to anchor us through life's

turbulence, and Anne's wisdom is really humble yet illuminating, blending wit and candor that

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