Karen Schoneman gifted me with a copy of her recently published book,"Working in the Light". It is a book of daily reflections, coming from the perspective that "as we move forward on our spiritual paths, we are light workers, letting God's light flow through us and out to where it is needed - in ourselves and in our world."
Last week one of the reflections was about the Tool Library in Berkeley, CA. How innovative to have a central source to borrow needed tools when they are no longer so commonly found in our own garage or our neighbor's -- if we even know our neighbors.
Karen ended her reflection with the suggestion that today we "applaud all those who are using the divine characteristics of imagination to see new solutions to problems and new ways to serve each other."
Today I applaud and thank God for all those individuals working with elders who have used and continue to use their imagination to see aging and supportive aging services in a new light. It is in this light of new understandings of aging that imagination can romp and dance like a child in the sunlight, bringing new solutions to failed and inadequate views of aging and aging services.
This work is called transforming the culture. Culture Change.
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About Me
- Imelda Maurer, cdp
- A Sister of Divine Providence, I am a life-long educator, community organizer and advocate. For 15 years I was an enthusiastic secondary math and science classroom teacher. My assignment in Louisiana during forced integration led me beyond the diocesan-approved white-flight situation into community organizing with agricultural farm workers in that same State and later with textile workers in Appalachia. Years later, when my own mother was experiencing ongoing decline in a “typical”, institutional nursing home, I searched for solutions to what I saw as systemic problems. It led to my ministry in aging services, initially, as a long-term care ombudsman. Shortly thereafter, I completed a graduate program in applied gerontology at the University of North Texas With a nursing home administrator’s license in hand, I served as Director/Administrator at all levels of care for several years. Since 2008, as Founder and Director of In Service to Our Own, I have focused my energies on aging and aging services among Sisters across the United States -- and our call as religious to prophetic witness to an aging and ageist society --through writing, consultation and presentations.
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