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 | 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...
by mkellent | Nov 29, 2014 | Individual Aging
I hope I will always be able to dance because dancing provides a doorway into a different time and space. I seem to move on from fear or sadness or stress, as I did recently. Driving on a Los Angeles freeway, in rush hour in the dark, I tried to ignore the dreaded...
by mkellent | Nov 29, 2014 | Individual Aging
I recently spent a weekend with 7 other women between 58 and 72. One sunlit morning, we sat around the breakfast table with its line of little vases of bright blossoms marching down the center. Feeling expansive, well fed, and cocooned in an atmosphere of...
by mkellent | Sep 22, 2014 | Context, Individual Aging
Thoughts on our own aging….. Walking through filtered sunlight in the woods glowing with color and texture, we playfully crunch the dry leaves with each step and listen to how the bird calls and sounds of creatures weave together. It is a great day, we are in shape...
by mkellent | Sep 7, 2014 | Context, Individual Aging
Re-Generation : stories of a process. When I founded Artworks at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco CA, in 1980 there was little understanding that everyone is creative in different ways, and that we continue to be creative as we age. We now know that expressing...
