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The Rossmoor Death Café will meet on Friday, February 13, 3:30-5 PM in the Vista Room at the Hillside Clubhouse.
Though not a grief support or therapy group, our Death Café offers a safe place for participants to bring up such end-of-life issues as Advanced Healthcare Directives, how to talk about final plans and wishes with your family, and other late life concerns.
Thank you to the 53 attendees who joined us for January's Death Café.
Richard Naegle opened the gathering with this poem containing an interesting question.
Where Is God?
It's as if what is unbreakable -
the very pulse of life - waits for
everything else to be torn away,
and then in the bareness that
only silence and suffering and
great love can expose, it dares
to speak through us and to us.
It seems to say, if you want to last,
hold on to nothing. If you want
to know love, let in everything.
If you want to feel the presence
of everything, stop counting the
things that break along the way.
-Mark Nepo
And Richard closed Death Café with this poem about the magic of living.
Steps
As every blossom fades and all youth sinks
Into old age, so every life’s design,
Each flower of wisdom, every good, attains
It’s prime and cannot last forever.
At each life’s call the heart must be prepared
To take its leave and to commence afresh,
Courageously and with no hint of grief
Submit itself to other, newer ties.
A magic dwells in each beginning and
Protecting us it tells us how to live.
—Hermann Hesse
(from “Magister Ludi,” tr. M. Savill)
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