S2. Chapter 10: I Gave Her My Heart. She Gave Me a Pen. Can I Write My Way Home?

Lloyd Dobler sits with one of the most personal moments of his past, a 2011 letter from Diane Court, rediscovered in the spring of 2025 and shares why realizes it’s the moment that launched this guided meditation experiment called The Tao of Lloyd.

This episode weaves the questions of Chapter 10 of the Tao Te Ching:”Can you soften? Can you step back from your own mind?”—into Lloyd's attempt to reconnect with the parts of himself that once believed things mattered and acted like it. Equal parts confession, meditation, and Gen-X existential comedy, this chapter explores how a single line in an old letter can echo across decades and become a guide rope back toward compassion, courage, and clarity.