art and aging Archives - Aging, caregiving and the journey through the second half of life

“The Older I Get” Inspired Painting

September 26, 2021

Alan Jackson’s song The Older I Get combines a reminiscent melody with lyrical insights about being old that are both memorable and profound. I especially like the verse about friendships and added it to one of my painting, which proved…

For whatever comes in life…

November 27, 2020

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that…Saint Teresa of Alviar Courage by David Solie…

Divine Construct

March 14, 2020

Between the mundane and the horrific lies a divine construct trying to signal us reassurance and hope that there is a bigger game at play here, one that your heart will recognize and draw courage from as we make our…

Old Age is the Stage

November 18, 2015

Art is the great decoder of unintelligible worlds like old age. In psychology we call this decoding ‘sensemaking’ and the plays about aging in this splendid article are sensemaking at its finest. As important, they give old age a humanizing…