Landscapes of Aging and Spirituality
Essays
In a collection of lovely essays, nineteen writers reflect on the experience of aging and the ways it intersects with their spiritual lives. Alternately tender and frank, funny and wistful, these heartfelt ruminations offer companionship for those walking the journey of later life. The authors, many of them retired ministers, approach the topic from many angles, with many stories, including adjusting to wearing leg braces due to neuropathy, being called "a woman of your age," considering what it would be like to have nothing left to prove, and reflecting on assisted suicide and its impact on those we love. These thoughtful writers ponder growing older as a spiritual path--not one that we choose, but one that has chosen us.
The first woman and first layperson to become executive vice president of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), Kathleen (Kay) Montgomery held that role from 1985 until 2013, serving in the administrations of four UUA presidents. She is now retired and living in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. She is the editor of Bless the Imperfect.
