Tag Archive for: aging

Finding the spirit within the physical world

As I move on with my daily life of exercise with caretakers, phone calls and Zoom meetings, I am still planning and doing, although at a much slower pace.

Making contributions as we grow older

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One goal of my long writing career has always been to explore the spirituality of aging in a humanistic idiom. Its themes can be related to traditional religious language, but they don’t have to be.

Que sera, sera

It takes a lifetime to form a personal philosophy. Often one is shaped by the many phases of a lifetime, but old age gives the opportunity to take stock, with some time-tested, basic definitions.

A Secret Voice

My book Interbeing contains a section of poems to my younger brother, George, who died in 2019, and now that I myself am in my tenth decade these poems take on a special resonance.

The interlocking life

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Hello friends, As I look back on my three books on aging and my memoir, Taking a Long Road Home, I realize that this whole writing enterprise has been about searching inwardly on the contemplative path to live more creatively and spiritually.…