The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.