I started my blogging life in 2008 partly as a way of capturing my experience of a sabbatical in America. In the spring of that year I spent
the costs of trying to avoid the inevitable
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 From todays Church Times
James Woodward on the costs of trying to avoid the inevitable
Should We Live Forever? The ethical ambiguities of aging
New Year Resolution: Embrace Change
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hammered gold and gold enamelling
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, a
A Lack of Soul?
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AGEING AND CARE OF THE SOUL
Thomas Moore has described the fundamental psychological problem of contemporary life as
a lack of “
Growing Older?
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BEDE GRIFFITHS: THE MONK GROWS OLD
Father Bede Griffiths was a a Catholic monk who spent most of his life as a
"Christian Yogi" in India, where
AGING AND THE TRANSITORINESS OF LIFE
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In old age something special happens to reality. Its hardness is softened by the experience of transitoriness. Persons who once seemed indispensab
Does belief change in old age?
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Belief and Ageing
Spiritual pathways in later life
Peter G. Coleman (Editor) Paperback, 192 pages Policy Press Bristol 2011
ISBN 9781847424594Â
memories
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We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sig
THE WISDOM OF AGE
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Turkish folk hero Mulla Nasr Edin had reached old age
and was sitting in a tea house with friends looking back on his life:
"When I was a young
Moving Theory into Practice?
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Transitions and the Lifecourse
Challenging the Constructions of 'Growing Old'
Amanda Grenier
256 pages, pbk £26.99, Policy Press  Bristol- (Age
CONFUCIUS ON THE LIFE-COURSE
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The Master said,
'At fifteen I set my heart upon learning
At thirty, I had planted my feet upon firm ground.
At forty, I no longer suffered fr
Are we ever too old?
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The poet Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) wasn't too old, as shown in this
poem, written when Kunitz was nearly a hundred years old:
"The Layers"
Run the course of life’s banquet – approaching old age
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One very old way of depicting that shape of our destiny and humanity  is to picture life as a banquet, with a succession of courses through which o
later life
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Rainer Marie Rilke's poem "The Walk" invokes an image of
later life, a time of life by which we are grasped even if we
cannot grasp it-- t
LIFE BEYOND GRIEF
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From the vantage point of youth, sorrows in later life
seem so relentless that we cannot imagine living through them.
We watch elders lose friend
a crowd of stars
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When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Yo
Ageing is no accident!
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Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human
condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic
of who we are simply by lasting
The necessity of Age!
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OLD MASTERS
 How long does it take to become an Old Master? Longer than
one might think:
Louise Bourgeois, a great experimental sculptor, once d
AGEING AS TIMELESS
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How do you view your ageing?
   In this culture aging is a dirty word. Youth is the thing.Â
Old people make themselves up to look like young p
Imagining Age?
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Here is the opening to my lecture in Southwark Cathedral last night
In a science museum, there is one exhibit in particular which attracted long line