Tell us your story
What’s your story? We all have one––more if you’re my age. So why not share your wisdom, maybe even write a book, and leave something for your family to remember you by?
Inspiration
There was gold in Alaska, he was told.
Would you let your son head off to Alaska looking for gold when he had only finished grammar school and then, out of money, take a job building telephone offices in Seattle, Washington, when phones were unheard of, and he didn’t know the first thing about electricity? My grandparents did, and my dad got his […]
I’m not Chilly anymore. Call me Larry.
I’d spotted Chilly Willy a few times off and on after my return to the Urban Ministry Center, but this Wednesday he looked different, more relaxed. His clothes were cleaner, his hair not so tangled but still in dreadlocks. I didn’t know who was doing his barberin’ these days, but they were better than his […]
Harvesting stories. Preserving a lifetime.
“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground,” the ancient saying goes, because older adults and even younger women and men and children have much to teach us about life and ourselves if we provide ways for their wisdom to be shared. Dr. Lyndall Hare used those words, “When an old man […]