Last month we launched the Conscious Aging Book Club with the selection of The Spirituality of Age. Over the next few days is the time to heat up the dialogue online as I’ll be bringing your thoughts with me to the in-person meeting of the book club at Parnassus Books, Nashville this Thursday, April […]
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I am staying on Facebook. It’s an imperfect decision made by an imperfect person in an imperfect world. As recently as yesterday, I was going to disengage, believing that my staying connected offered tacit support to Facebook’s role in the 2016 campaign and that its invasion of the right to privacy was a line I […]
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For 14 years, our generation has stuck with Facebook: invested our hearts and souls in it–while younger generations have largely bailed. For many of us as we’ve aged, Facebook has increasingly become a lifeline to the world. At a stage in our lives when our work and social communities are dissipating and our influencer networks […]
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A few years ago, Dan and I bought a little houseboat. Dan sees it as a vehicle for adventure, captain of the high seas, although with an old engine that burns hot, we don’t go far from shore. Because of the boat, we have transformed Nashville’s humid summers from something to dread into a thing […]
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My new friend Annette and I were getting to know one another after tai chi class last week, each of us delighted to have discovered a new conversation partner close to home. The dialogue took place over cappuccinos in a favorite neighborhood cafe. “I love tai chi,” Annette commented between her first and second sip. […]
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The gang from Zumba class were trying out a new restaurant for my seventieth birthday. Service was slow and we were overly hungry. It was a spectacularly unlucky case of timing that just when I finally decided to start unwrapping my birthday presents, the long-absent waiter suddenly showed up with the overdue food. Already committed […]
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The soul “judges itself by choosing, in accord with the character formed during its life on earth, which sort of an afterlife it shall have.” –Aldous Huxley The old woman stood before the guarding angel, so many tears welling in her eyes that she could not read the letters on the gates. While she […]
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“Once again, Carol Orsborn stirs the reader to reflect upon aging as an opportunity for depth and expansion, and week by week to experience that which abides through life’s changes.”
James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
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“The Spirituality of Age is beautifully written…the best book I have ever read on this most significant passage.”
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