What I have been increasingly aware of as 2019 drew to a close, is how little genuine connection I experience, especially during holidays. Despite the world-wide web which is supposed to connect us in ways that better the world, I experience just the opposite. I dislike opening my email anymore. On New Year’s Eve, I […]
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Speaking as an Elder
I have reached the age where many of my contemporaries and I speak of decline, death, legacy, and our responsibility as elders. In this post, I speak as an elder … as one who has gained some wisdom from the challenges life has thrown my way. I am led to this because I have carried […]
Practicing Wisdom in These Divided Times
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. ~#3 of 8 Core Principles of the Center for Action and Contemplation In Richard Rohr’s October 3 daily meditation, he says that St. Francis knew that oppositional energy creates more of the same. And so, rather than fighting systems directly and risking becoming […]
Caregiver Update
Noticing Sensations For the first time in three years, I have been gifted with two experiences of being “home alone.” When Marvel took Nicole swimming. I noticed how good it felt to have the house to myself. When Carol took her to her birthday lunch, I noticed again that same sensation in my body. I […]
Caring for the Caregiver
Depression The past few months I notice a change in my daughter’s behavior. She sleeps more (and she already sleeps a lot because daytime sleepiness is one of the symptoms of her disease), spends more time in her room, doesn’t eat as much, is even more non-communicative than usual, complains of aches and pains. After […]
Ceremonial Burning
You are a link in a chain of causation that stretches before and after your life for a thousand generations. ~Rev. Chris Michaels Last summer I tore the pages of my journals into shreds … pages I used to remember the details of my story chronicled in A Long Awakening to Grace: a memoir of […]
