In that blog, Lauren Small quotes Oliver Sacks when he learned his time was limited: “Over the last few days,” he wrote, “I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts.”

I wondered what it would be like if I tried to live like this every day. If we all did. Let go of the small stuff and reach out for the big stuff.