May the blessing of rain be on you.
the soft sweet rain.
May it fall upon your spirit
so that small flowers may spring up.
~ Celtic blessing
My impatience for spring to arrive walks across the pages of my journal – a late spring this year makes me more attuned than usual to the shifting light as the sun continues its path north. Watching the little streamlets emerging in our woods these weeks, I’m reminded of e. e. cummings’ spring creations: ‘puddle-wonderful’ and ‘mud-luscious’.
Here are two seasonal poems from our collection Celebrating Poets over 70:
Shameless Spring
Epilogue of a Romance
Aging in Community
Cure Disconnection – Psychology Today article
Aging with Resilience
Research on Older Adults Driving – Brenda Vrkljan, McMaster University
Want to be Happy – Think Like an Old Person
Writing Exercise
Choose a favourite flower and write about how you can learn about the seasons of life from this particular flower.
Book Review
Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey toward Meaning and Joy.
Thomas Moore; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017.
Thomas Moore, appreciated author of the timeless Care of the Soul, writes as a 76-year-old contemplative and psychotherapist about the Ageless Soul – providing insights into how we might travel our journey toward meaning and joy in late life. Life is a series of initiations — opportunities to grow into our own unique, complex self.
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His chapter on transforming loneliness teaches that loneliness is part of living and especially a part of aging. But it does not have to take over your life and one can cope with loneliness in small everyday steps.
Moore tells many stories drawn from his own aging and from that of his patients. His [psychoanalytic] perspective is that we can grow out of ‘either/or’ attitudes about good and bad. With maturity, we can grow into ‘both/and’ attitudes.
Ageless soul is achieved through reflecting on life experiences and in ‘big-hearted’ community.
Finally, Moore ends the book with the fundamental paradox:
You age best by embracing your age, with suitable melancholy, and at the same time choosing to live without age, ageless, with as much joy as you can muster.
Click here for the complete Book Review: Moore17-AgelessSoul
With this shadow photo,
I bid you adieu
Ellen