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Alzheimer’s took the life of just about everyone in my family. My mother getting the disease was the last straw. As her only 
child and no other living family, it fell to me to provide and manage all of her care. After eleven years it took her life. It nearly took mine.
So how is it that I am now the executive director of a local non-profit, The Memory Care Alliance, which provides education, support and resources for families caring for a loved-one with Alzheimer’s or any other related illness?
David answers that question, and offers insight about the challenges associated with this disease, not only for family caregivers, but also the social and cultural aspects as well. And as for God? He will offer insight about the part He plays in all of this. Read more
private school in Brooklyn, worked as a carpenter and mechanic in upstate New York, and co-founded a shamanic teaching center in Vermont. Until recently, he lived in Brattleboro, Vermont and divided his time between teaching anthropology and history at the local community college and pouring water in sweat lodge and singing kirtan. He studied shamanism for ten years and later became a devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and Amma. Ananda has been involved with twelve step programs for over 25 years and his journey in recovery directly informs his spiritual path. He is the author of Here for the Joy: A Memoir of Survival, Addiction Recovery, Spiritual Enlightenment and In-Depth Personal Transformation.
Barry’s talk focuses on the importance of having passion in your life and how passionate living can engender contentment and enhance one’s sense of self worth.
of complete loss and deadness, a stark and frightening absence of creativity and enthusiasm, where life seems to retreat away from us like a tide.” This place has been called a “dark night of the soul,” after St. John of the Cross. But it can also be seen as a necessary passage through a liminal space and time that more closely resembles a spiral than a direct path. How do we traverse this passage, and what happens to our spirituality when we are stuck on that spiral? Rev. Hollis Walker explores the spiral with us.
becoming Divinely human.
time ago and the common things that he does not remember. He shares some of those memories and lack of memories and talks about his personal observations of this intriguing phenomena.
concepts worth considering in terms of tools for the aging journey: I surrender, I mourn, I adjust and adapt. These are part of a larger body of work by Victor entitled Thanatopia.
while on vacation. I came face to face with child sex trafficking on vacation in Cambodia. The children’s plight haunted me, but inspired me to create Alchemy Design Project, a sustainable initiative that offers economic alternatives to the global preponderance of rescued survivors being re-trafficked. Alchemy Design Project cultivates tangible marketable opportunities through vocational training and drives real change.
explained may prove to be well founded or true.” Jeff will talk about how uncomfortable, omnipresent, unavoidable, and soulful paradox is for those of us attempting to wake up in this life. He has been practicing an attitude of acceptance and abundance lately, discovering that often the experiences his ego resists most have the most to offer his soul. No doubt there will be a few poems involved.
system? Let’s find out! The particular details will reveal themselves in the now.
