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✨ Introduction  As I walk into my 80th year and the stage of Spiritual Elderhood, certain questions rise from the depth of my being, asking to be m...

🌱 AI Is Not the Enemy 🌱 A few days ago, Maya Christobel’s Open Letter to Gregg Braden appeared in my Facebook feed. Her words reminded me that AI i...

1. By Holding, Not Adding Pressure The first task of the grandmother is to withhold the subtle pressure to excel that even loving families pass on ...

As elders, we know that no soul contract is unchanging.At its essence, a soul contract may be as simple as the promise to be a presence of good wit...

At our recent circle, one grandmother shared a dilemma close to her heart: Should I attend my white family reunion, or distance myself completely? ...

Turning 80 is no small thing. According to Wilbert Alix’s map of the 12 Mystical Stages of Spiritual & Physical Evolution, I now walk in the st...

Last night, our storytelling and deep listening circle gathered around the theme of paradox in Spiritual Elderhood: “Perhaps this is the essence of...

This morning, as I entered reflection on what Wilbert Alix calls the 11th Stage of Evolution — Spiritual Elderhood, I found myself wrestling with a...

For weeks I wrestled with a simple but not-so-simple question: Should I tell my siblings that my new book, A Listening Grandmother, has been publis...

On 13th August 2025, my daughter JoAnn wrote to me from Malaysia, where she had spent the past few weeks — first caring for her father through a br...

14th August 2025  Intro:Sometimes the threads are spun so fine you almost miss them — a word here, a look there, a shared breath in a circle. And y...

When I meet other grandmothers, I am always moved by the quiet strength and wisdom they carry. Recently, at a Silvers gathering, I met a photograph...