The Blossom of a Life Well Lived

We began talking about the possibility of doing a special issue on aging and life’s end a couple of years… Susan Corson-Finnerty

An Opportunity to Laugh with Sarah

The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house… Elizabeth F. Meyer

What Is Retirement For?

For a while during the summer of 2003, I was aware of an unanswered question waiting to be asked. As… Richard Eastman

The Move to Happy Valley

We’re too young, but let’s look at some Quaker retirement communities anyway and put our names down—it may take ten… Renee Crauder

An Approach in Regions with Few Friends

In Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) we are fortunate in having a good number of couples about the same age (between… Martha Hampton

Intergenerational Learning in Friends Schools

Quakers believe in truth-seeking as a process of continuing revelation, seeing life as a journey of learning from one’s experiences… Sarah Sweeney-Denham

Quaker Services and Quaker Values

Friends have made a substantial impact on the availability and quality of senior care in the United States. Friends senior… Warren A. Witte

A Healing Presence

"Come Lord, be with us And bless what thou hast given to us." These words came to me again in… Mary Ann Downey

To Live Deliberately

Henry David Thoreau explained his famous sojourn at Walden Pond with the words, "I went to the woods because I… Kirsten Backstrom

Reviewing Our Lives

Accept with serenity the approach of each new stage of life. Welcome the approach of old age, both for oneself… Elizabeth Serkin

To Live Fully until Death: Lessons from the Dying

My Quakerism and my work for the past 25 years as a hospice nurse have informed and strengthened each other.… Connie McPeak Green

Musings on Aging and Death

A recent illness has forced me not to deny the facts of my apparent mortality any longer. Culturally, through a… Horatio C. Wood IV
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