Dirk Beveridge

From a Buc-ee’s Parking Lot at 4:38 AM: A Reminder We’re All Miracles

Good morning Reader, Welcome to the 39th issue of The FAM. I’m writing to you at 4:38 a.m. Eastern time from the parking lot of a Buc-ee’s in Calhoun, Georgia—just 90 minutes before this lands in your inbox. Yesterday morning, I got the not-so-surprising news that my mother’s health had taken what we believe is the final turn for the worse. She is beginning her final journey here with us. In the hours that followed, I rolled the RV out of storage, threw a summer’s worth of clothes in the…

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Good morning Reader— And welcome to the 17th issue of The FAM. Every week, I receive email responses from The FAM community. And after decades of traveling the country to meet the people this community was built for, I’ve noticed a few resounding patterns. One of them? Exhaustion. It’s widespread and sometimes downright debilitating. Over and over I’ve heard: “I’m tired of being tired.” “I feel like there’s no gas left in the tank.” “I’m running on empty and don’t know how to gain that energy…

The mind is the source, the mantra is a tool

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Good morning Reader— And welcome to the 17th issue of The FAM. Every week, I receive email responses from The FAM community. And after decades of traveling the country to meet the people this community was built for, I’ve noticed a few resounding patterns. One of them? Exhaustion. It’s widespread and sometimes downright debilitating. Over and over I’ve heard: “I’m tired of being tired.” “I feel like there’s no gas left in the tank.” “I’m running on empty and don’t know how to gain that energy…

The mind is the source, the mantra is a tool

The FAM Newsletter

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Good morning Reader— And welcome to the 17th issue of The FAM. Every week, I receive email responses from The FAM community. And after decades of traveling the country to meet the people this community was built for, I’ve noticed a few resounding patterns. One of them? Exhaustion. It’s widespread and sometimes downright debilitating. Over and over I’ve heard: “I’m tired of being tired.” “I feel like there’s no gas left in the tank.” “I’m running on empty and don’t know how to gain that energy…

The mind is the source, the mantra is a tool

The FAM Newsletter

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