Dear Spiritual Senior,
 

We have achieved a milestone that I want to share: nearly 10,000 readers now receive Spiritual Seniors.
 

I’ve thought about that number more than I expected. Sure, it matters—but not for the usual reasons.
 

Not 10,000 strong.
Not 10,000 together.
But 10,000 different ways.
 

Each person who reads these reflections carries a life shaped by particular joys, losses, questions, convictions—and callings. No two paths alike. No two stories interchangeable. Some are loud. Many are quiet. All of them unfinished.
 

That variety has always been the strength of this community.
 

Spiritual Seniors did not grow because everyone agreed, or arrived from the same place, or shared the same language for meaning. It grew because many of you recognized something familiar here: a respect for depth, for lived experience, for questions that don’t rush toward answers.
 

Over time, this space has become something more than a publication. I didn’t set out for that to happen—but it did.
 

It became a conversation—marked by attentiveness, by patience, by the shared sense that later life is not a narrowing, but a widening—of insight, compassion, perspective.
 

That widening looks different in every life. And it doesn’t always look settled or easy.
 

If you read quietly, know that your presence still matters.
If you write back, comment, or share, thank you for adding your voice.
If you’ve been here since the beginning or arrived last week, you belong equally.
 

How You Can Help

Spiritual Seniors is reader-supported. Contributions help keep this space independent, thoughtful, and free from the pressures that so often flatten conversation into noise.
 

I’m mindful of how often people are asked to support things these days. So I’ll simply say this: if this work has given you language for something you were already carrying, your support helps ensure it continues.
 

🤍 Support This Work
 

Ten thousand readers does not make a movement.
 

Ten thousand lives, lived thoughtfully—and taken seriously—just might.
 

With gratitude,
 

Jim

Founder & Editor
Spiritual Seniors
 

Reader submissions may be lightly edited for clarity and length, while preserving the writer’s original voice.