Every other month in the third week (this time on a Thursday!), join friends old and new to discuss a work of non-fiction, memoir, or maybe even fiction on a topic that is related to aging, caregiving, death, and dying.

This month, we will reading slim volume Gratitude, made up of four short essays written at the end of Oliver Sack’s life. The prolific neurologist and author captures the sense of what it means to have lived well and to face death with gratitude and wonder. We will also discuss our own reasons for gratitude and how we might lean into that in the present. RSVP to find out more about our in-person gathering.

Discussion Leader: Leslie Rowley

Every other month on the third Wednesday (this time the fourth Wednesday!), join friends old and new to discuss a work of non-fiction, memoir, or maybe even fiction on a topic that is related to aging, caregiving, death, and dying.

This month, we will take a wider view of what death looks like in Hayley Campbell’s All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Lives’ Work. With a thru-line from her own life, each chapter touches on another occupation that centers death—and teaches something about life—in some way. RSVP to find out more about our in-person gathering.

Discussion Leader: Leslie Rowley