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when I think of you
When I think of you, you will know that I do. When I cross your mind, you are dancing in my thoughts, and running down my memory lane....

Ilan Cooley
Dec 23, 20201 min read


walking away
We hold each other’s hands as he draws his last breath, her head on his chest. Inaudible words escape our lips. The world is a blur...

Ilan Cooley
Dec 7, 20203 min read


10,000 hours
"In his book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell asserts it takes 10,000 hours of dedicated practice to become expert at something. Theoretically,...

Ilan Cooley
Nov 24, 20203 min read


the gift of aging
"If I can start one trend it will be to stop the word aging from being a bad word, and to forbid the word anti from ever being placed in...

Ilan Cooley
Nov 2, 20203 min read


how women die
I know how women die. I wish I did not, but I do.

Ilan Cooley
Oct 13, 20203 min read


the good
In her final days she called her friends and family to gather. She asked us to gather and we did.

Ilan Cooley
Sep 28, 20203 min read


our words matter
I believe everyone, and I mean everyone, should have the same rights, freedoms, and protections.

Ilan Cooley
Sep 8, 20204 min read


the happiness project
I set out to make myself happier. It took time and effort to tunnel my way out of sadness, but I did it.

Ilan Cooley
Aug 24, 20204 min read


the mirror
It is not tragic that someone can’t hug you back together.

Ilan Cooley
Aug 10, 20203 min read


untethered
A short time ago the string snapped and everything changed.

Ilan Cooley
Jul 27, 20204 min read


a fish on the moon
I recently had a lot of things change. It was so abrupt and relentless it pulled me off my axis. I drifted so far that I landed on the moon.

Ilan Cooley
Jul 13, 20204 min read


the cannonball
Most things are a matter of perspective and if you want to change your perspective you often need to change your vantage point.

Ilan Cooley
Jun 29, 20204 min read


the healing garden
Some people plant a new garden and watch it grow, and other people pave over the past like it is a parking lot.

Ilan Cooley
Jun 22, 20204 min read


wings
The strength you show is not in flight,
It is in the gesture of choosing to put your flock of tiny birds under them instead.

Ilan Cooley
Jun 21, 20201 min read


black lives matter. period.
If you cannot put someone else’s needs ahead of your own, you have some work to do.

Ilan Cooley
Jun 15, 20204 min read


one track pony
I don’t think it is wise to be a one-track pony. Eventually there may be a dead end, or a fork in the road. Then what?

Ilan Cooley
Jun 8, 20204 min read


from selfies to selfless
The true influencers of now are the people who worked hard to keep us fed, informed and safe.

Ilan Cooley
May 25, 20203 min read


excess vs. abundance
Once we truly know, love and trust ourselves we will have so much more to give and share.

Ilan Cooley
May 19, 20203 min read


bug in a jar
I feel like a bug in a jar. Some bratty kid came along and put me in a jar. I am a bug in a jar. Sometimes the kid shakes the jar…

Ilan Cooley
May 8, 20204 min read


yes, but at least
I accepted permission to be sad, so I could finally start to shed it, layer by layer, like pulling the individual strands from...

Ilan Cooley
May 3, 20204 min read
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