You see her across the room. You know her. You remember where you met. You remember that her husband is named Bob, that they went to Italy last year and that their daughter recently graduated from law school. You remember enough about her to carry
The first signs of fall usually arrive before the school buses do. Back-to-school commercials on every channel and stream. Halloween candy in the drugstore and pumpkin beers on the menu at your favorite restaurant. Then comes the first cooler day. It may still be summer,
By Shulamit Sofia, MSW At 88, I find myself still vital, happily mobile and still curious about what life has left to offer. That exploration took on new urgency during the pandemic, when my active life, my engagement with other people and much of the outside world
William Blake found a world in a grain of sand. Across spiritual traditions and modern psychology, the smallest things can reveal something much larger about meaning, connection and our place in the universe.
Infinity is easy enough to name and nearly impossible to comprehend. The Netflix documentary A Trip to Infinity takes us from an impossible hotel to questions of love, eternity, mortality and what it means to be finite.
Memory, faith, doubt, regret, imagination and earlier versions of ourselves all inhabit the life within. What can Proust, spiritual traditions and psychology teach us about this inner world as we grow older? I'd use “The Inner Life: What Grows Within Us as We Age” for the
What happens when the strength we expected to have is gone? The Finnish concept of sisu offers a surprising way to think about perseverance, surrender, and the reserves we discover in later life.
Henry David Thoreau went to Walden asking how much a person really needs. In later life, the question “What is enough?” can reach far beyond possessions.
Some books are read once and set aside. Others seem to wait patiently for us. The words remain exactly as they were, yet something has changed. A passage that once seemed ordinary suddenly feels personal. An idea we barely noticed years ago now speaks directly to
On this day, August 9, 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden: Life in the Woods, a book that is still inviting readers into the same conversation 172 years later. Thousands of books have come and gone since then. Some were bestsellers in their day and are