October 2023
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September 6, 2023: The New York Times headline screams across the page: An aging America needs an honest conversation about growing old. “In less than two decades,” says the newspaper in a voice I imagine to be like that of the narrator of a disaster movie, “the graying of America will be inescapable: Older adults…
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Making Sense of Reincarnation
How much time we have to live—it is a fundamental question. Philosopher Christopher Bache in his excellent book entitled Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life, puts it like this: “How much time do I get to be alive, to take in experience, to learn? How much time do I get to make mistakes and…
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In their book The Spirituality of Imperfection, Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham share a story about a time when a group of addiction experts from Russia visited the United States and attended several Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “hoping to find in those smoky rooms something that could be used to fight the serious alcohol problem in…
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Like the wings of a bird testify to the reality of air; like the gills of a fish testify to the reality of water; just so, the pain of lovelessness is a sign of the reality of that which feels missing and is desperately longed for. –Anonymous photographer “I was my father’s first daughter,” writes…
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