Aging & the Inner Life - Aging Abundantly

NAVIGATING EMOTIONS in DIFFICULT TIMES

Who among us has not felt red hot anger? In fact, anger is often the most appropriate emotion. Rage even. But, when we live in a place of constant anger or despair we do real damage to ourselves and those around us. To be human is to be subject to…

DEAR FRIENDS & KIND HEARTS

Dear Friends and kind hearts, Yesterday felt like a Good Friday to me. Steeped in the sacred and sacramental as a child, the rituals of the Episcopal Church provided comfort to me as a young adult when life seemed too big to manage alone. During my seminary years, while I…

11/6/2024 A Message for My Children & Grandchildren

In the darkness this morning, as I struggled to absorb what’s happened, I began writing to my children. What can I tell them? How can I give them hope, I thought. What do I believe? How will I get through? The following is what I sent to them and i…

FINDING JOY AS WE AGE – A CHOICE

Many of us don’t believe we can find joy as we age. After all, we’ve spent a lifetime striving, achieving, overcoming, managing, and caring for others often beyond our limits. And now, the issues of aging threaten to take the last bit of life and joy from us. But the…

BEES ~ What They Teach Us About Dying

Have you ever seen a bee resting on a flower in the evening? They are sometimes old bees, tired or unwell after a hard day’s work. Old bees don’t return to their hive at the end of the day. They spend the night on flowers, and if they have the…

MEDITATION, TECHNOLOGY & AGING ABUNDANTLY

I remember so clearly the mood of my teen years. Stepping off the school bus at fifteen and sixteen into the quiet of solitude of the two block walk to my house, I was buzzing inside with relationship challenges, academic anxieties, and a mix of exhaustion and deep fatigue. The…