by mkellent | May 12, 2021 | Inspiration, Our world, Purpose, Reflections, social reflections
Each day they entered with muffled greetings, their plastic shrouds rustling. There was an inevitable flurry of activity as they consulted dials and meters. Somewhere behind goggles I imagined I could see their eyes while anonymous hands checked the various tubes...
by admin | Dec 28, 2018 | Inspiration, Purpose, Reflections
Walking along a creek daily for the past few weeks, I see how it changes each time in shape, speed and reflections, as Fall days move towards Winter. Although it is a couple of hundred miles from the ocean, I trace its course in my imagination. from a patch about feet...
by mkellent | Nov 14, 2018 | Inspiration, Our world, Purpose, Reflections, social reflections
In the face of the relentless fires and other recent tragedies, I have been thinking about Love. Not the romantic kind, although that is wonderful, but the wider, deeper kind that can all too easily go unnoticed. **“The meaning of life is to give meaning to life, and...
by mkellent | Sep 27, 2018 | Our world, Purpose, social reflections
After the complaint that my generation had caused all the problems that this generation now has to cleanup, I own responsibility. We may not have caused all the problems but we have perpetuated them and allowed others to expand the causes. Once again I asked myself...
by mkellent | Sep 13, 2017 | I never thought I could, Inspiration, Purpose, Working in the Field
This was published recently in LinkedIn In just over 11 years 20% of the US population will be over 65 and, if recent ageist tradition holds, millions will continue to be dismissed as useless and obsolete. 20% of society with 40 or more years of life and professional...
by mkellent | Nov 3, 2016 | Purpose, Working in the Field
I recently presented at the California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics (Fostering Active and Purposeful Aging: a California Journey) and briefly touched on the relationship of the creative process to learning and how the arts can be beneficial to the process of...
