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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…
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…
What Is Retirement For?
For a while during the summer of 2003, I was aware of an unanswered question waiting to be asked. As…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Healing Presence
"Come Lord, be with us And bless what thou hast given to us." These words came to me again in…
To Live Deliberately
Henry David Thoreau explained his famous sojourn at Walden Pond with the words, "I went to the woods because I…
Reviewing Our Lives
Accept with serenity the approach of each new stage of life. Welcome the approach of old age, both for oneself…
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.…
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…
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A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends
March 1, 2024
The Fundamental Principle of Quaker Spirituality: Light in the Conscience
March 1, 2024
Inner Healing, Inner Peace: A Quaker Perspective
March 1, 2024