by Peggy Flynn | Jun 4, 2021 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth, Resources
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 30, 2021 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth, Spiritual Direction
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 23, 2021 | Aging, All
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 9, 2021 | All, Spiritual Direction
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 2, 2021 | All, 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...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 26, 2021 | All, Books, Studies
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 19, 2021 | All, Spiritual Direction
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 12, 2021 | All, Caregiving
Covid solitude has provided time for lots of introspection and reflection. There was a time I would have been on the front lines. Now, somewhat sadly in a spirit of self-preservation, I have to sit back watching, remembering and considering. I have been thinking of...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 5, 2021 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth
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...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 17, 2020 | All
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...