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  • Aging,  Life Challenges

    Loneliness and Aging

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    clasped hands, lonliness

    Loneliness often accompanies aging for many people. Growing older has felt to me like a rehearsal in small abandonments. A good friend moves away. A neighbor dies...

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    Ardis Mayo
  • Aging,  Life Challenges

    The Body Remembers

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    two white haired aging ladies on a bench discussing the meaning and purpose of growing old, memory

    Suppose for a moment that our aging bodies carried not only scars and wrinkles of the years gone by, but also every dream we once dreamed…

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  • Creativity,  Life Challenges

    Journaling as a Path

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    woman journaling to-do list and goals

    Journaling can be a wonderful path to increased inner health, a way to be heard, a way to forgiveness for yourself and others, or a road out of…

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  • Dekker,  Life Challenges

    Wisdom from Dekker in Autumn

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    Dekker, service dog posing on granite slab

    As I, Dekker the observer, lie with my nose near the door and my paws outstretched like a proper gentleman, I can tell… something is changing. The air…

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