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There’s an old story I first heard from the mythologist Michael Meade, one that begins in a place many people recognize. In the early years of the world—“back in the first days,” as the story begins—people began to get sick. Not just physically, but in their dreams, in their spirits, in their sense of how ...
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She also introduced a word to me, “soul-icide,” the suicide of the soul. Salliji said modern society didn’t create enough rituals to replenish our souls. She said the five ways
July 12, 2022
Unfortunately, he’s not alone. Two Harvard psychologists, Tessa Charlesworth and Mahzarin Banaji, suggest that negative aging stereotypes are actually more persistent than those about race and gender. Drawing on data
July 11, 2022
Well, maybe not all. A few of us…souls who are allowed only supervised visitation with our stoves…panicked. I am one of those people. So, I panicked. Fortunately, at MEA, panic
July 10, 2022
Somehow, this Transcendentalist helped me find the source of my own joy. Thoreau wrote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential
July 9, 2022
Philosopher and psychologist John Dewey wrote, “Information is knowledge which is merely acquired and stored up; wisdom is knowledge operating in the direction of powers to the better living of
July 8, 2022
Fate kept making him look for what was missing. It was during this time that Forster, who was openly gay, fell deeply in love with an Egyptian tram driver, Mohammed
July 7, 2022
When the deep, immediate recession associated with the 2020 pandemic came along, many jobs were lost. However, this time, many older workers—with more than ten years of tenure—were at the
July 6, 2022
If you are a square It is not hard to find a place to fit It is the same for a triangle (Those suckers slot right in) The circle can
July 5, 2022
This beautiful quote was said long before the pandemic, or long before the UK government decided to create something called the Ministry of Loneliness. The truth is, our forced social
July 4, 2022
“[W]hen you grasp the sense in which your situation is completely hopeless, instead of just very challenging, you can unclench. You get to exhale. You no longer have to go
July 3, 2022
To be honest, throughout my “middlescence,” my writing practice has sustained me. After sweating over soul-crushing papers of literary criticism for my doctoral work in literature, I dropped writing for
July 2, 2022
Just like adolescence is a transitional stage between childhood and adulthood, midlife (or middlescence) is a transitional stage between adulthood and elderhood. One’s elderhood may last many decades, given that
July 1, 2022
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