Contents
Border Crossing

Contents
Foreword by Elbert Cole 8
Author’s Preface to the Revised Edition 11
Author’s Preface 15

1 Specially selected for you · 21
2 The eagle and the weasel · 30
3 Galloping, naked, in the night · 39
4 Between a rock and a sure place · 50
5 Growing up Christian, growing old(er) Christian · 62
6 The curriculum is changing · 72
7 Older adult spirituality · 83
8 Growing old(er) in a win/lose culture · 94
9 The little old lady in tennis shoes · 105
10 Tilling the soil of memory · 117
11 Night work · 124
12 When I am old · 134
13 How to stay alive: Laugh a little · 144
14 Making the fairies last · 154
15 Funerals are opportunities · 165
16 Teacher, how many words
do I need for tomorrow’s essay? · 176
17 This gives me hope · 187
18 Border crossing · 197

Bibliography 208
The Author 211

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