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Geriatric Care Consulting
Obtaining a comprehensive, holistic overview of the realities of aging, illness or disability makes it possible to plan a course of action that creates a safe environment for all concerned.
Spiritual Direction
Looking to deepen your spiritual practice or seeking beliefs and practices that are in synch with who you are — especially in the evening of life — a spiritual guide can make a difference.
“…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
Look at Me! Watch Me! See Me!
Pre-Covid, I was walking past a playground and a small child was calling out to her mother from the top of a slide: Watch me, Mommy, watch me! The mother kept repeating: I see you. Taking in the scene I realized that two things were going on. For one, the child was...
Resources
Recently I was clearing out my browser history and noticed that there are some sites I return to again and again sometimes for information and sometimes for inspiration and sometimes for both. Next Avenue: News and Information for People Over 50 Better Health While...
What I’m Studying These Days
One significant shift for me in the aging process has been a move toward integration and synthesis. Not so much making the pieces fit as being with the pieces as an organic wholeness begins to emerge. One set of pieces are the ideas and insights of the people listed...
Imagine!
Free associating about the word spirit. Team spirit. Full of spirit. Spirited. Dispirited. Not material. Not tangible. Lively. Full of life. Enlivening. The Holy Spirit. So much has been written and sung about something no one can see or touch. Yet how many of us...
I Don’t Want Anyone in My Business!
A very sad thing happened this year in early February. My sister died---no notice to any one that she was even sick which was hard enough---but it turns out that to the end she was in sole control (!) of her affairs. Her passwords died with her. It will require death...
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...