# 1 Creating Balance in the Midlife
What we find, changes who we become…
~Peter Morville
Preface
I am 47 years old and squarely in the MIDLIFE.
I recently was asked by a charity whose board I recently joined, to send a bio and a headshot for their website. I cobbled the bio together hurriedly so I could tick the item off my to-do list. The bio read as follows:
Rocks, Pebbles, Sand and Water
Most of us have heard a version of the instructive parable of the rocks, pebbles, and sand. In this parable, an instructor in a classroom setting takes a jar and fills it to the brim with sizable rocks.