Solutions To Problems Often Depend

Improvisation And New Learning Are Not Private Processes; They Are Shared With Others At Every Age. We Are Called To Join In A Dance Whose Steps Must Be Learned Along The Way, So It Is Important To Attend And Respond. Even In Uncertainty, We Are Responsible For Our Steps.

The Capacity To Combine Commitment With Skepticism Is Essential To Democracy.

... As We Age We Have Not Only To Readdress Earlier Developmental Crises But Also Somehow To Find The Way To Three Affirmations That May Seem To Conflict. ... We Have To Affirm Our Own Life. We Have To Affirm Our Own Death. And We Have To Affirm Love, Both Given And Received.

Fear Is Not A Good Teacher. The Lessons Of Fear Are Quickly Forgotten.

I Had Repeatedly Accepted Inappropriate Burdens, Stepping In To Do What Needed To Be Done. In Retrospect, I Think I Carried Them Well, But The Cost Was That I Was Chronically Overloaded, Weary, And Short Of Time For Politicking, Smoothing Ruffled Feathers, And Simply Resting.