What Our Solitude Is Trying to Teach Us The house stays the same now. The books on the table, the jacket on the chair, the glass by the sink—they wait. When the house was full, nothing stayed still for long. Now even the air feels stagnant.
Mortality in later life is not a morbid subject—it is a sacred one. To face our finitude honestly is not to give in to despair, but to make peace with the deepest truth of life: that it is brief, precious, and not ours to control.
Spiritual Signals offers weekly spiritual reflections for seniors, drawing from diverse traditions. This week, we reflect on the theme of aging. Introduction Aging is not a problem to be solved. It’s a passage to be lived. While our culture tends to frame aging in terms of loss—of