On the Boundaries

Since it’s been almost exactly five months since I posted anything on this site, I have obviously kept it open to the possibility of another offering. However, even my faithful readers may have given up on anything appearing here, unless, perhaps, they recalled that last post being characterized in its final sentence as denoting either…

As any reader will see, this fourth and final offering on this topic ends with a Postlude, so  perhaps it’s appropriate that it begins with a brief Prelude.  As my dear wife often reminds me, I am truly guilty of “overthinking” almost any-or-everything, especially what I write. I confess to that in this instance, but…

The previous post dealt with the importance of Religion and began to unfold the place of Human Relationships, particularly Friendships, as sources of meaning in my life. To move forward from there, another place where I have found deep and cherished meaning in my life has been, and continues to be, the experience of love,…

With apologies to any who might care, it has been a little over a month since the first post in this series of blogs on finding meaning in one’s life. Although this one was ready to post weeks ago, a tragedy occurred in my life that brought me to an abrupt stop. With a further…

The term “revisiting” takes me directly to what led me to write this blog on this topic after having posted nothing for over three months! A few weeks ago I, literally, “stumbled” across a file folder that stuck somehow to the folder I intentionally took from the file drawer. It simply laid on a footstool…

To end basically where I began in the first of these five posts, the “ground” for the growth of all the friendships I will have addressed in these posts, with the exception of one, was my entrance into a 45-year career in two institutions—one of 35 years and an entirely surprising 10-year post-retirement career in…

In this fourth—and, what was to have been, final!—post on this topic, I’ll apologize for having slipped into my “eternal” editing that should shorten but, given my complete absence of the gift of brevity, it just became longer. I can only hope it had the intended result of enriching, not muddying, my sincere care for…

This post will be devoted entirely to relationships with two of my treasured friends, each of which has, sadly, ended — but their deaths in no way diminish what they brought to my life and they will never be forgotten! My mind, my heart, my memory are filled with overwhelming gratitude for my friend and…

This second post on the friendships that I treasure in my life will, happily, be entirely devoted to narratives that describe and attempt to distinguish four unique relationships, each of which continues to enrich my life. And so ends these reflections on four relationships that enriched and continue to bless my life. The third post,…

Let me note unashamedly and unapologetically at the very beginning of these reflections that I will draw from time to time some content from earlier comments on the subject, one of which is this statement, posted just over four years ago: The older I have become, the older my true friendships have become and the…