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“…we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
~Carl Jung
What Others Have to Say…
Just a pleasure to read your affirming discoveries and wonderings.
This is a beautiful meditation on the gifts and challenges of the season, and of being, more broadly in the winter of our lives… Keep writing!!! I love these essays and am enriched by your thoughts.
You have so much practical and existential wisdom to offer! Blessings on all of your endeavors.
“In the midst of winter I found within myself an invincible spring.”
~Camus
Recent Blog Posts
Spiritual Direction
Okay, folks, now’s your chance! If you have always wanted to explore things-spiritual but were too busy, how about now? Want to talk? about meaning? about suffering? about the range of spiritual paths and lineages? about spiritual but not religious? about religious...
In Case of Emergency
I recommend reading this article closely. I wonder if it will bring up as many memories and mixed feelings for you as it did for me. I’m single and live alone. And on many forms, I can’t fill in the line for ‘In case of emergency.’By Elana Rabinowitz (April 4, 2020)...
The Sandwich Generation : My Interview with Peggy Flynn
Listen to guest, Peggy Flynn, on the 20-Minutes with Browyn Podcast, CLICK HERE...
The Three A’s of Care: Allies, Agreements, Alchemy
The most common portrayal of care provision is a relationship where the older and/or sick person is taken care of by younger, healthy family members or paid workers. This flies in the face of the reality that (1) in many homes the less sick person is...
Duck, Death and the Tulip
By Wolf Erlbruch A dear friend sent me this enchanting book. The illustrator portrays the story of an evolving relationship between death and a being who has a limited lifespan, the duck. The text is spare and to the point: For a while now, Duck had had a...
Still Experiencing Writer’s Block!
I was once complaining to a long-suffering friend about how a project was stymied by my current bout of writer’s block. She remarked that she had never experienced it. WOW! I pleaded for her secret. She looked at me calmly and said: “I don’t write.” Okay....