August Reflection
Peregrinations
August 2026
Nancy Arko
SDCO Guiding Circle Member
I belong to a small group of 70- and 80-year-old soul friends in various stages of life. We have been meeting for about five years.
Tonight, we are reflecting on our life in the world, our inner life, and our aging process.
Over a leisurely dinner, we talk about the recent film The Odyssey, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses,” and Mary Oliver’s simple, but stunning poem “The Journey.” Where do we see ourselves in the Odyssey of our own lives? How do we feel about death and where are we in the continuum of doing vs. being?
Some members of this group are former hospice workers with special insight into the last days of life over a career of caring for and sitting with the dying. Jesuit studies, the enneagram, astrology, spiral dynamics, mental health, literature, and our long history as seekers all play a part in our understanding of how we have grown in body, mind, spirit over time.. [More]
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