Reveries of Aging: Aka Losing Our Minds
Reveries of Aging: Aka Losing Our Minds is the fourth installment of the Soulful Aging Tour, the call-and-response poetry readings that Katherine Chantal and Colleen Redman have been doing since the winter of 2022 at various regional venues, including at Radford University, Little River Poetry Festival, Yoga Jam, Jessie Peterman Library, the Soup Shop and Blue Ridge Green Burial’s Death Cafe.
The message of Soulful Aging is to “do it with art.”
Our shared art is a way to honor what is and to express the grief and the insights that come with the changes of aging.
For this Losing Our Minds installment, Katherine and Colleen invited their friend Mary Wiley to contribute her poetry that artfully speaks to living through this stage of life.
In the spirit of depth psychology, Katherine asks, ‘Do we lose ourselves / so as not to know / we are leaving?’
Mary wonders, ‘Do you know that I am leaving / that the door is within sight?
Colleen ponders, ‘If life’s creation can’t be destroyed / but can only change form / then nothing is ever thrown away / it just moves from room to room.’
We might forget a name but remember what is beautiful. We might revere a memory or re-name aging as the natural way towards “transcendence.” Taking our leave takes time. Colleen Redman
Note: Katherine and Colleen’s poetry books are available for sale on Amazon and locally at The Harvest Moon Food Store and The Floyd Country Store. More on Soulful Aging HERE.
