Easter is coming. As I sit here looking out onto a rain-slicked Tucker Avenue and parks, which are trying to become spring-green, under a thin, grey, leaky sky, I do not feel energy for tackling the tasks of the day. The freshness spring—officially five days old—should usher in is absent from the scene. How inappropriate, incongruent with the season today seems—temperature in the forties, drizzly rain, and grey skies does not paint an image of joyful spring with kids (goats or children) frolicking in green meadows. But it’s going to get worse.
Archive for March, 2018
Living Into Easter
Posted: March 26, 2018 in Christian LifeTags: Christianity, Courage, Death, Easter, Good Friday, Gottes Freitag, Grace, Hope, Jesus, Loneliness, Messiah, Pain, Rain, spiritual
Living Fully to the End
Posted: March 7, 2018 in Life's DesignTags: Diversity, Retirement, Retirement Community, society
Considering living options as life winds down is an activity in which everyone will ultimately engage. Retirement planning is imperative. Many people immediately think about structuring their finances in a way that a sufficient amount of funds will be available for living out their final days. Without question, that is a huge piece of retirement planning. But that’s not all there is to ensuring quality, and even quantity, of life as it winds down. Another design component that goes into this last phase of living on this earth is whether or when to settle into a retirement community. (more…)
