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Did you ever feel like the time before Christmas is just upside-down?
By the Rev. Paul Graves
Do you remember the lead-up to Christmas when you were a child? If you now have children, or grandchildren, or...
Nurturing Elders: The Fall is More Than a Season
By the Rev. Paul Graves | Painting by Tizian
For many years I've been professionally aware of older adults' tendencies toward balance issues -- often...
Nurturing Elders: Prodigal Summer Memories
By the Rev. Paul Graves
One of my favorite Biblical stories for decades has been The Prodigal Son parable. For a variety of reasons it...
Nurturing Elders: Signposts on a Journey of Woundedness
Outside the Oklahoma National Memorial Museum is the children’s memorial to honor the children killed. The wall tiles and courtyard were designed by other...
Nurturing Elders: Practicing the Better
A young man was the subject of this story.
But I have heard persons of all ages say virtually the same thing, and have to...
Elders: Were you initiated into aging?
By the Rev. Paul Graves | Photos courtesy of Wikipedia, et. al.
Do you remember some of the “initiating rites” you either enjoyed or endured...
Embracing the Creative Age: A Boomer Reflects Upon Growing Older
By Ellis Waller-Walker
I am a boomer and confronting getting older. The irony is that I happened to have a background in aging as a...
Nurturing Elders: BOOMERSTOCK 2016!
By the Rev. Paul Graves
As I sat in one of the presentations about Boomers at Boomerstock, this famous refrain came to my mind: “Freedom’s...
Nurturing Elders: What do we do with our FEAR?
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about the image, here.
By the Rev. Paul Graves
On November 8, we all have a chance to vote...
Elders: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
Portrait of artist Henry Moore, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Nurturing Elders and Others:
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
By the Rev. Paul Graves | Photo courtesy of...