The Luminist
Illuminating the pain, the pleasure, and the paradox on the path to technicolor living. Sue talks about widowhood, leadership (both with her kids and in her former corporate exec position), and how we can live well amidst the uncertainty of life.
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- Sep 19, 2026
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#197: Letting go. (opens the original)
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How do you know when to let something go? Letting things go without having a say — more highway robbery than baton-passing — takes up chapter after chapter of my story. This includes my moves as a kid all the way up to the empty nest, with Mike’s death the textbook exemplar. But what about the times when the choice is ours? Sometimes we wait for an undeniable knowing, for a YES!, for a bi-plane dragging a banner NOW’S THE TIME. Sometimes we get so burnt out or turned off or fed up we can’t take
#187: Alone but not alone. (opens the original)
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Maybe it started the morning of Day 8 at the Thon Hotel breakfast buffet. After what I’m now labeling my ‘Three Peaks’ Day , I’d slept like a freshman home from college, waking to an alarm set for 8:45. Not bothering to pack up yet, I arrived at the breakfast buffet with plenty of stuff-my-face time and sandwich-making time before breakfast closed at 9:30. Only when I had settled into a corner table with a heaping plate of eggs, salmon, toast, and herring(!), did I wake up enough to take in my s
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