- 90 year-old Bat Mitzvahs? Women in a nursing home outside of Cleveland are celebrating their comings-of-age some 80 years later.
- Have unemployed friends? This article gives some suggestions to help them (well, if you are gainfully employed with power to loan out desks and offer other professional services--I can offer the homecooked meal, though). May we all not need this.
- Jane Brody's Guide to the Great Beyondis highlighted on the New Old Age blog today. It's a powerful description of a "bad" death.
- Is God Disabled? Professor and author Nancy Eiesland, who is also a person who used a wheelchair, has found out, having died of genetic lung cancer. I was fascinated by the excerpt of her reasoning, that because Jesus's appears after the Resurrection with his wounds that God is also disabled. She didn't want her congenital bone defects healed when she died, seeing them as an integral part of hersef, and liked to picture God with a "puff" wheelchair. It might sound crazy, but she helped the UN draft the Declaration of Rights for People with Disabilities and taught at Emory's Candler School of Theology.
Whoops, ran out of time because it's going to be lunch soon. More later.
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