Archive for January 2011
TREE OF FAILURE BY DAVID BROOKS, NEW YORK TIMES, JANUARY 14, 2011 You may wonder why I am posting this editorial on the ContemplAgeing website. Written in response to the January 8th shootings in Tuscon, AZ, the editorial by New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, David Brooks, captures an important aspect of aging and maturation, that [...]
Mary Oliver’s Summer Day in December–Presence
Perhaps it is odd to suggest reading Mary Oliver’s poem, “A Summer Day,” on January 1st, in the dead of winter. Several days ago, we in Boston were hit with a blizzard that left eighteen plus inches of snow amid temperatures in the teens—hardly a summer day. Nonetheless, her poem seems appropriate as a sequel [...]