by Peggy Flynn | Jun 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction, Studies
Thank you, especially to Gregory Bateson and Milton Erickson for one of the insights that changed my life—language shapes perception. How we talk about something or someone creates the context for discovering and relating to it’s mystery. The reality of...
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 | Oct 23, 2018 | All, Studies
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. Well I do....
by Peggy Flynn | Oct 23, 2018 | Aging, All, Studies
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 traveled on...
by Peggy Flynn | Sep 3, 2018 | Aging, All, Studies
Here it is—the first week of my 70’s and the first week of the new school year and the kick-off to a new way to be of service. This website is a celebration of all three. What can I say about turning 70? I have been talking about it for months to long-suffering...