Transitions
Reflections on the Ripening of Retirement
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi The life you live is the lesson you […]
Hallowe’en; All Hallows’ Eve – Honoring the Dead…and the Living
I seldom post about cultural holidays except to honor the sacredness that underlies their original meaning, like Labor Day or Memorial Day. This year I’m making an exception for Hallowe’en […]
The Original Map of Resilience
Transitioning into retirement means reading many good new books and re-connecting with many good old friends. It also means tackling the de-cluttering postponed for at least five years while I […]
Competent, Efficient, Creative, Contributory
Besides letting go of the roles that were the pillars of my professional life – working with clients as a psychotherapist in a 30-year clinical practice, teaching the neuroscience of […]
Retirement: Dancing with Doing-Living-Being
A colleague sent me a card for my retirement: “Congratulations on your new office furniture!” With an image of a hammock in the back yard. I do have a chaise […]
It Really Was This Beautiful
I formally brought my career/calling as a psychotherapist/trainer to a poignant closure by teaching at the end of June at the Cape Cod Institute. And I formally celebrated the transition […]
Finding the Goldilocks Spot
As you read this, I will be celebrating my (almost) 75th birthday by attempting to hike to the top of Mt. Lassen (10,500 feet). When I climbed the peak last […]
The Land of In-Between
“Nauset” means “a place between.” The indigenous Nauset lived on the salt marshes of Cape Cod for hundreds of years before the Pilgrims “discovered” the Cape and displaced the native […]
To Bless the Space Between Us
Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness has been the banner of this e-newsletter from the very beginning. And Conscious, Compassionate Connection the path to that healing and awakening from […]
Replenishing the Soil, Replenishing the Soul
My friend Mark, a high school biology teacher, is fond of the adage, “Bad farmers grow weeds; good farmers grow crops; excellent farmers grow soil.” I’ve certainly experienced the wisdom […]