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 | Apr 4, 2015 | I never thought I could, Individual Aging, Rod Paton, Working in the Field
Recently I had a conversation about meaning and purpose in later life with Dr. Rod Paton from the University of Chichester, England when he was in Los Angeles. He mentioned that he was supposed to retire 8 years ago but had not. Instead, he re-directed some of his...
by mkellent | Jan 30, 2015 | Individual Aging, Inspiration
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it” ― Gautama Buddha I spent time with an artist I admire very much: Dominique Moody is a well-known assemblage artist who is creating her life so that her vision, purpose, art and...
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...