Welcome to My Legacy Project
“Legacy. What is a legacy?It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” ~Hamilton the Musical This Summer I was reviewing my end-of-life stuff—seemed to be an appropriate exercise for someone approaching 76. I have versions of my own obituary (an...
Some Dreams Die or Do They Really?
Two grief events occurred recently A friend from my late 20’s died. She called me a few weeks before to say goodbye. So many memories! Sadness, yes, but that kind of Autumn sadness. The other was a conversation that triggered a tsunami of raw grief from a death 35...
Spirituality and Aging – Session 1 – Aging in the Big Wide World
On completion of this session the participant will: Have an increased awareness of the shift in demographics across the globe as various countries experience an increasing life span; Become aware of the challenges presented by an aging population: economics, housing,...
Spirituality and Aging – #1: Course Overview (Proposal)
On completion of this course, the participant will be able to: Identify the major factors that affect the person in the evening of life both as an individual and as a member of a larger world; Employ an expanded vocabulary enabling one to think beyond stereotypes;...
Spirituality and Aging – Introduction: A Course I Would Like to Take
Several times this past year when I mentioned Spirituality and Aging the discussion shifted to hospice care. At first, I was startled and confused. Had I missed some part of the conversation? A senior moment? Some kind of fugue state? But then I realized that many...
What Comes After – As Imagined by Peg Flynn #1
One of the most common topics of conversation around dying and death is what comes after. We can imagine that this kind of speculation goes back millennia, wherever humans gathered around someone who, in one moment, was there and, in the next moment, was gone. Gone...
What Exactly Happens in the Chrysalis
The metaphor of the butterfly is often used to illustrate the stages in the process of transformation: caterpillar→cocoon→butterfly. The caterpillar gets the signal somehow, someway, to begin to spin fiber around itself; creating a cocoon/chrysalis within which it...
Stations of the Cross
It’s Lent—the six weeks leading up to a remembering of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. I was at Mass at a local Catholic church and found myself seeing something familiar in a whole new way. Most Catholic churches have representations of the...
Tools for Self-knowledge
Some weeks ago, spiritual direction colleagues and I were talking about the use and value of personality assessment tools in the spiritual direction encounter. Thinking about it since then—I can see the use and the value. Crucial to note that the person coming...The Book
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