The Covid-19 pandemic may be with us for much longer than most of us thought. For the aging and elderly population there are greater challenges to underlying health concerns. Stay in contact with neighbors and friends by telephone and computer — one of the benefits of our modern age.
“Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.” —Søren Kierkegaard Hello friends, Freudians sometimes refer to the interactions of parents and children as the family romance, surely an ironic term given the interplay between our common idea of romance and the dramatics of real families. And Tolstoy, hardly a paragon of familial […]
Aging as a Spiritual Journey was my first major foray into the challenges and promise of growing older. The book offered an approach that brought together social, psychological, religious and literary dimensions of aging. I attempted to examine both mid-life and elderhood in terms of difficult challenges and positive options. I also included a group of […]
Hello friends. Two decades after starting work on Elder Wisdom, I wondered about its relevance for today. Discounting some author prejudice, I think it holds up pretty well. One reason is that the ideas and experiences expressed by the hundred elders seem to be deeply rooted in human nature. My aging interviewees were speaking from […]
Hello friends, my poetry often includes animals. They are nature’s true teachers and I am fortunate to learn from them every day here on the banks of the Oconee. My two “cat familiars” Max and Tony continue to be the centerstage Buddhas in my daily routine and encourage me to stop and rest, observe and […]