If I could just listen… October 1, 2021 Like a growing number of elders these days, I have chosen to live in a retirement community. We are an active community. The members all have vocationally or avocationally dedicated their lives and resources to social justice and the environment as a …
October 8, 2021 Every family has its own emotional tasks to work out. I suspect that when those are not approached fairly openly in some way, either in conversation or by ritual, the tasks are divided up among the members who then deal with them separately, and each in their …
September 25, 2021 “Well, good weather, bad weather, t’aint very choice, but I always manage to find something to say.” (Ma Gibbs in Our Town. Thornton Wilder Way back when I was teaching at Duke, I had a string of major surgeries twice in one year, each requiring six weeks …
10/16/21 For six or seven years, I have been a regular musician for the adult choir at the Saturday evening mass at my local Catholic Church. The church is proud of its size – – 5000 families – – and it was only by wedging myself into the adult choir …
