{"id":1784,"date":"2023-10-01T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2023-10-01T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:33:13","slug":"i-highly-recommend-lilys-book-here-is-my-blurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/i-highly-recommend-lilys-book-here-is-my-blurb\/","title":{"rendered":"I highly recommend Lily&#8217;s book&#8230;here is my blurb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendation for <strong>Lily Iona MacKenzie\u2019s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Dreaming Myself Into Old Age: One Woman\u2019s Search for Meaning<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Old age is an opportunity to experience our own deepest mystery. Life\u2019s distractions preclude tending to this mystery before the prospect of death begins to close all the curtains to the outside world. Mystery literally means \u201cseeing with the eyes closed.\u201d We do this when we sleep, and then we see dreams. Dreams, like our DNA, are unique to us. Truth be known, our dreams are an invitation to explore our uniqueness and become an extraordinary resource for us as we confront the reality and inevitability of death. We do know that every dream is a story\u2014a mystery\u2014but most people have little or no connection to this reality. This is why it is important for something or someone to point us in the direction of our own unique path\u2014a direction that becomes crucial as death approaches. We don\u2019t need instruction. We don\u2019t need lectures. We don\u2019t need admonitions or dogma. What we need are stories that strike us to the core, stories that can open us up to the most important pathway we will ever experience. What can help is to hear stories of someone who has struggled with the same things we struggle with in old age and as death begins to call our name. An exquisite example is Lilly Iona MacKensie\u2019s book, <em>Dreaming Myself into Old Age: One Woman\u2019s Search for Meaning. <\/em>What I find most compelling about this work is she speaks not with an impersonal, distant voice, but with full-throated revelations of her personal struggles, an inside view that invites connection, that opens one up to her stories, her dreams, her art, in such a way that it becomes a genuine <em>companion<\/em> to one\u2019s own struggles with old age, dying and death. Read this book now. You will be glad you did.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russell A. Lockhart, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Author of <em>The Final Interlude: Advancing Age and Life\u2019s End (with Lee Roloff), Psyche Speaks, Words As Eggs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendation for Lily Iona MacKenzie\u2019s Dreaming Myself Into Old Age: One Woman\u2019s Search for Meaning \u00a0 Old age is an opportunity to experience our own deepest mystery. Life\u2019s distractions preclude tending to this mystery before the prospect of death begins to close all the curtains to the outside world. Mystery literally means \u201cseeing with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}