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I am an elder now, but not at the end of my life, rather, as Parker Palmer suggests, on the brink of everything.

"Old men ought to be explorers." T S Eliot

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About Ric Hudgens

Pastor, professor, poet.

Interests in radical ecopsychology, spiritual ecology, and the spirituality of aging.

I read.
I walk.
I write.
I pray.

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