The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel began the day after the 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival began here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was immersed in watching […]
Travel. Grandchildren. Gardening. I hear these are what many folks do when they retire, if they are able. I’ve traveled some, mostly to hike in wilderness. I thoroughly enjoy zooming […]
Ephemera: something of no lasting significance; paper items that were meant to be discarded after use; lasting one day only. – Webster’s College Dictionary The word ephemera was used by […]
I know that catastrophic thinking – a sneeze means a cold means missing work means losing my job means financial disaster, all in less than three seconds – is my […]
One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin Perhaps you were struck, as I was, by the contrast in the recent news coverage of […]
I’ve been saving the poem below for my penultimate e-post of these Resources for Recovering Resilience. The wrap-up e-post will be sent July 13 after teaching my very last ever […]
I was very familiar with the Vietnam War – friends being drafted to kill or be killed for their country or becoming conscientious objectors. And with the power of the […]
Krista Tippett announced this summer’s pause of the On Being project with this quote from John O’Donohue. Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place in […]
Two good friends have died in the last two weeks. Long lives, well lived. Companioned in their passage from living well to dying well by family and friends who loved […]
May Sarton’s poem The Work of Happiness, included at the end of this post, gives some indication of how my leaning from retirement into Renaissance has landed me more and […]