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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 wondering. ~SB
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. ~VA
You have so much practical and existential wisdom to offer! Blessings on all of your endeavors. ~MU
“In the midst of winter I found within myself an invincible spring.”
~Camus
Recent Blog Posts
Aging and Friendship
In the immortal words of Katie Curtin Sullivan to a lonely little girl: “Peggy, If you want to have friends, be a friend." (a plaintive) How? “Ask people about themselves. Be curious. Pay attention. Many people are interesting.” My 40’s and 50’s were good training...
Aging and Loneliness
A search on Google---aging and loneliness---produced about 11,700,000 results (0.54 seconds). Major topic areas include: Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults How to Reduce Loneliness in the Elderly Elderly Loneliness Covid Health Effects of Social...
My Sister’s Death — A Teaching Story
Years ago when I worked in project management one of the essential if sometimes less than delightful activities was an after-action report that asked and hopefully answered these questions: What did we intend to accomplish? What actually happened? What were the...
Spiritual Autobiography – Transparent to the Transcendent
Some years ago I attended a workshop taught by Bernadette Roberts, a contemporary Christian mystic. She made the offhand comment that she wished there were no autobiographies written by mystics and saints. Why? In her opinion seekers read these and compare and...
A Novel Approach
There are many ways of documenting our lives, for example, diaries and planners, scrap books, photo albums and journals. The next and vital step is to reflect on our lives using tools such as life review and Ira Progoff’s Intensive Journal Process which I have used...
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...