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Whom to Remember on Mother’s Day

I propose that we enlarge Mother’s Day to honor not just our biological mothers but our spiritual mothers as well.  They are the teachers, neighbors, aunts, family friends and others whose generosity of spirit left an indelible [...]

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Thinking About Death

While I’m an elder, I hadn’t given a lot of thought to dying, that is until my brother, who’s 20 months younger, announced in a recent late-night phone call that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.  (To preserve my brother’s privacy, I’ll refer to him as “G.”) G calmly described his intentions not to live in an advanced [...]

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Help! My Time is Running Out!

As my birthdays pile up, I’m forced to face the fact that I’m running out of time. It feels scary. I’m healthy and financially secure, but no one lives forever.  How much time do I have left:  10 years, 15 years?  The last 10 years raced by. If the next 10 years are going to be equally accelerated, how can I make the most of them?  [...]

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The Straight Scoop on Witches

With Halloween right around the corner, it’s an appropriate time to reflect on the origin of witches, and to understand how the village wise woman was turned into a representation of evil, becoming a “witch.” We have to travel back to the 1500’s in Western Europe, when women healers and midwives played a central role in village after [...]

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