The Qi of Spring
A painting that celebrates the energy of new beginnings…
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Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax: Beethoven in hard times
What an honor to hear Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax with their collective maturity and stunning technical skills both play and discuss Beethoven’s soaring Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major in an empty auditorium at the Tanglewood Music Center,…
Free-Access 30-Minute Video: Closing the Communication Gap with Our Aging Parents
I created this video for adult children and their aging parents. It is information that both generations need to know about the psychology of the last phase of life. It restores dignity and purpose in the lives of older adults,…
The Older I Get…
This song by Alan Jackson is an inspiring reminder that the values that make life rich and rewarding play a key role in the last phase of life by reminding all of us what matters most despite losses and…
My Digital Footpath…
Below is a blessing from the Celtic mystic, John O’Donohue that I am offering to all you who follow my spiritual wanderings on this digital footpath.
Some of you I know and love. Your presence and friendship are divine scaffolding…
Our worse fears about Alzheimer’s patients trapped in the pandemic
The brutal isolation imposed by the pandemic on Alzheimer’s patients living in care facilities is straining their families to the limits as being implicated in thousands of ”excess” deaths of this vulnerable population.
(see article in Washington Post)
”Overlooked…
Swept Away: Pandemic Death in Nursing Homes
Medical science can explain the chain of vulnerability that led to waves of death that COVID 19 visited in nursing homes. Wrong place. Wrong time. Luck is destiny. But our hearts know a much different story. Here’s mine.
In my…
The Drama of Control Never Gets Easier and Never Goes Away
Control is the current we ride to the end. Sometimes It’s buried in a dilemma between two unsavory choices and no escape hatch. Sometimes heroic efforts to facilitate control provoke dilemmas we never saw coming.
My point is that control…
Evidence-Based Inquiry Into Driving Skills
At some point, driving gets away from our aging parents. It’s an insidious process that lulls older adults into a false sense of security that their driving skills are still adequate. Adult children see a different picture of “unsafe driving”…
Who are the important people who passed through your life?
Life review asks us to reconsider people that have played an important role in who we are today. We are surprised that with the passing of time there has been an unexpected shift in opinions about people we were sure…