by mkellent | Jan 20, 2015 | Individual Aging
It seems so simple to go to visual artists to explore this, for obvious reasons. How better to express your values than through your art where you live? Take my long-time friends, artists Beth Pewther and Leonard Breger, who have inspired me over the years. Their...
by mkellent | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Purpose – the reason for being and how it guides our lives. Regardless of our adult age, it seems to me that being clear about our purpose is important for everyone and to understand that what we see as our purpose is a reflection of our core values. There are useful...
by mkellent | Jan 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year! I have been thinking about purpose in life. While recovering from being one of the “chosen” who spend the holidays sniffling and out of sorts in the midst of all the merriment, I had time to reflect in and on the “no-mans land” between sickness and...
by mkellent | Dec 12, 2014 | Working in the Field
I recently had the pleasure of participating in a panel presenting “The Creative Age” at the 77th Annual Conference for the National Guild for Community Arts Education. The panel was sponsored by the National Center for Creative Aging. www.creativeaging.org Moderator,...
by mkellent | Dec 7, 2014 | Individual Aging
The world has turned grey, nothing in it sparkles any more, dawns are dull, sunsets ashen, all sounds are muffled, my enthusiasm is sucked dry and my energy spent. I shut myself away to privately keen and howl and weep. I ask myself what is the point – of anything? Of...
