Carol's Reflections

Writing Like an Old Soul

Dear Fierce Ones, Back about a thousand years ago when I was making the perilous transit from midlife to older age, I met a fellow traveler named John C. Robinson. While I was equipped to attempt to make the most out of aging relying upon my doctorate in adult development,

Prayer for Peace

For weeks, I’ve been hankering to go outside to the yard and just sit. But like most of us who are supposedly retired, I had too much to do. I’ll spare you the list. Suffice it to say that everything was unavoidable, important or necessary. Then suddenly, like the early

Mortal Fear

I have now experienced mortal fear two times and have lived to tell the tale. My first engagement was 25 years ago, when I received a diagnosis of breast cancer. The realization of how much I wanted to live and how much I had to lose was a fiery gate

Learning to Love our Wounds

While you yearn for transcendence, unearthing, experiencing and processing old wounds is the real work of spiritual development. And you have been a devoted student. Like all old souls on the spiritual path, you have come to confront both the feelings of abandonment, of loss, of jealousy, a fear of