July 2011

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Friendship

          As we age, some family members remain as good friends. The more important word for those who sustain us in later life may be “friends” even if they are siblings or spouses/partners or our adult children. Or they may be people we love as close friends with no blood relationship. This may seem an [...]

Humanitarian

           The Roman sage said: “Nothing human is alien to me.” But this stage of personal development usually doesn’t arise from our early years. We grow up hemmed in by tribal identities fostered by family, religion, class, race, politics, gender and other restrictive forces. These ways of knowing ourselves have value. They give us a [...]

Sexuality

         It shouldn’t take much convincing to argue that we live in a highly sexualized culture. It’s all around us in media, advertising and movies. Elders have an especially hard time with the intense chorus about how they should be sexual. A few still think that older people should give up on sex since their reproductive [...]