July 2004
Articles
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Old Age: An Opportunity to Laugh with Sarah
Old age is a significant experience now as it was in biblical times.
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What Is Retirement For?
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The Move to "Happy Valley"
The author chronicles the experience of moving to a Friends retirement community.
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An Approach in Regions with Few Friends
A group of Iowa Friends have found a home in a Methodist retirement facility.
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Intergenerational Learning in Friends Schools
Several Friends schools work cooperatively with retirement community residents.
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Quaker Services and Quaker Values
Friends institutions for the aging, recognized as models, hope to improve services for the entire community.
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A Healing Presence
She puzzles over a prayer that came to her during recovery from a stroke.
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To Live Deliberately
A survivor of illness and counselor to the ill and grieving has been influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
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Reviewing Our Lives
A process called
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Aging, Dying, and a "Tame" Death
Aging is natural
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My Father and the Right to Die
During her father
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The Ability to Choose as Death Approaches
Hospice care, aimed at controlling pain, has been a great boon
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Care of the Dying: A Spiritual Discipline
Here are some poignant vignettes from the life of a hospice nurse.
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How Can You Do That Work?
For those who are cut out for hospice nursing, it is personally rewarding.
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To Live Fully until Death: Lessons from the Dying
One of many items left by her mother is enough to provoke powerful memories.
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One of many items left by her mother is enough to provoke powerful memories.
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Dear Mum
The author addresses a tender letter to her newly deceased mother.
Poems
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Giving Voice
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Frontiers
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Core Wisdom
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Agape
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Beyond All Weather
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Facing Pain
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Old Writer
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Time Honored
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Photo, New Homes Section
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Unstrung
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Insect Woman
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Caroline Balderston Parry: At Camp Neekaunis, 8/10/02
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Keys
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Living Still
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Interlocked
