Combing the historical significance of the Christmas Nativity with the diversity of cultures and artists that have interpreted it through the ages, "Finding Bethlehem" guides you thoughtful commentaries of theologians and collectors alike, to artist statements and the voices of "behind-thes-scenes" participants in the Festival, the book explores the spiritual and artistic meaning of the Nativity.
Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World
Dorothy H. Roddy was the founder and principal of lgawaga, inc., a company that evaluates and manages investment opportunities as well as doing property developing and managing. Dottie serves on the Retreat House and Columbarium Committee and chairs the Garden Committee at Mepkin Abbey.
Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World
By Marjory Zoet Bankson
We journey through life in external patterns that we know from our families. That pattern: marriage, raising children, careers outside the home, is done externally and often gives us our only identity. Suddenly we find ourselves past child rearing, our “jobs” ended and begin to wonder—“Was/Is my life meaningful?”.
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by Marjory Zoet Bankson
We journey through life in external patterns that we know from our families. That pattern: marriage, raising children, careers outside the home, is done externally and often gives us our only identity. Suddenly we find ourselves past child rearing, our “jobs” ended and begin to wonder—“Was/Is my life meaningful?”.
Marjory Bankson explores the spiritual dimensions of retirement and aging. We suddenly face that there is an “encore” opportunity that can be self chosen, exciting and fulfilling as we journey to the next stage of our life. Ms. Bankson relates wonderful examples, by story, of people who have discovered their real interior selves and have acted upon it, making the world a better place for them and for their fellow humans beings.
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