Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
~ Ryunosuke Satoro

A video shows Steve Paikin of The Agenda (TVOntario) talking about the future of senior care with Collaborative Aging consultant Sue Lantz .

Mark Nepo sets a broad stage for those of us seeking community, connection and hope – see book review below. Nepo recognizes the important mentorship of Parker Palmer, whose article on 13+1 ways to do community is featured in a link below.

Aging in Community

13 Ways of Looking at Community 

The Future of Senior Care

Aging & Writing

106-Year-Old Blogger in Sweden – Dagny Carlsson

Writing Exercise

Try this collaborative exercise with a partner. One person writes a title, then each person writes 9 lines for a poem. Together the partners weave together the 18 lines into the final poem.

Book Review

More Together than Alone:
Discovering the Power and Spirit of Community in our Lives and in the World

Mark Nepo; New York: Atria, 2018.

Award-winning author Mark Nepo has focused his work on asking spiritual questions.  In this book, he takes this perspective to issues around living in community with wisdom and compassion.  He builds upon the work of his longtime mentor Parker Palmer, who has devoted much of his life to learning and teaching about community.

An online study guide can be downloaded for scheduling your own small group discussions about these important questions.

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This book is full of inspirational quotations from significant writers – such as the following:

Community exists only when people know each other’s stories.
~ Wendell Berry

We must love one another or die.
~ W. H. Auden

Since the Renaissance, we’ve been exalting the individual and not the community… Therefore, the need for community and the re-learning of the skills to build community around the world is essential.
~ Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Community is like a large mosaic … a fellowship of …people who together make God visible in the world. 
~ Henri Nouwen                    

Man did not weave the web of life,
he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.    

~ Chief Seattle           

See the video where Mark Nepo talks about this book.

Friends on a walk

With this shadow photo,
I bid you adieu

        Ellen