The Discipline of a Beautiful Life Perfection is perhaps the hardest place to live. For one thing, we simply cannot stay there forever. Even when life feels almost perfect—when the people we love are well, our work is fulfilling, our relationships feel secure, and the future seems to be unfolding exactly as we hoped—something eventually changes. Because life changes. People change. Circumstances change. We change. And no one ever promised us a rose garden—or tomorrow—so when

One year ago, I was saying goodbye to a relationship that had once been filled with love. We had spent two wonderful years building a life together, sharing a home and dreaming about a future. What followed was nearly another year of untangling ourselves from a heartbreak that never seemed to end all at once. Just when I felt as though I had finally found solid ground again, another little tug on my heart would pull me back into the uncertainty. Heartbreak has a funny way of