Loose Leaf Notes

The gold of age is a rich harvest that’s born in darkness and brought to light. Mining the gold of the inner life is a living practice with a guiding seam and a deepening to forge.  And what will you spend your gold on?  Your time, your life? Every person’s inner gold accrues interest when shared. Every labor of love is the whole world’s enrichment.

These are some of the themes of Mining the Gold / Spending the Treasure, the latest installment of The Soulful Aging Poetry Reading Tour that Katherine Chantal and I have been sharing for four years now and will be reading for the kick-off at the Mindful Living Soulful Aging Be Well Now retreat, April 18-20 Floyd EcoVillage.

Our call-and-response sharing of various themed readings have been featured at a Radford University death and bereavement class for counselors, a Death Café, The Little River Poetry Festival, Yoga Jam, the Floyd Center for the Arts, last year’s Mindful Living Soulful Aging retreat and other local venues.

Blending memoir, dream work with contemplative reflection and taking up the challenge of “apprenticing ourselves to our own disappearance,” as coined by poet David Whyte, the poems in this series are a compilation of the past years of Katherine’s and my personal work and our collaboration using poetry as the soul’s compass to guide us in the right direction for this time of life. Please visit Be Well Now for more information and to register.