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Month: September 2010

Growing Old

Growing older, I have discover a common question among us older folks: Where do I fit into a community that honors that which is diminishing or now absent in my life and circumstances?

Reading Kathleen Norris’s “The Cloister Walk” this morning, this quote was clarifying and encouraging, opening a door of escape from either our self-imposed or circumstantial prison of old age.

“…when several generations of people are living together, the place of the very old is to teach about possibility.”