Hi everybody.

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. This week's go to is an excerpt from a book by a guy named Ron Shake.

He was the founder of Panera Bread and also Kava, which just went public in a big fantastic offering that everyone was talking about in New York City including my daughter.

Anyway, his book is called Know What Matters, Lessons from a lifetime of transformations, which resonated with me

instantly. So here is a passage that I thought we could all learn from and that we

might pass around to others.

All right, here we go.

Ron Shake, what matters most,

lessons from a lifetime of transformations.

I learned the most important lesson of my life as my father's life came to its end.

In January 1998, several years after a lung cancer diagnosis, my dad, Joseph Shake,

moved into my apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The nearby Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was the best hospital in the country, and having exhausted

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