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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
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....
Peter Drucker’s Ten Principles for Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Peter Drucker is one of my heroes. Soon I will be adding him to the gallery of Thought Leaders. Here are his Ten Principles as described by Bob Buford. These have been pivotal for me over the years. Some of these have resonated more strongly than others at...
Back-To-School
So far we have completed 3 sessions of the Internship in Spiritual Direction in the Ignatian Tradition. Three overnight trips from Milwaukee to Chicago---getting familiar with Chicago buses and trains. It is like a dream sequence. Forty years ago I...