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The A.S.U. Students Weekend On a beautiful fall weekend in early October, Light Morning hosted a group of college students from Appalachian State University. This is the fifth year that Harvard Ayers, their professor, has brought his "Human Ecology of the Southern Appalachians" class here. On Sunday morning, before pancakes, we had a closing circle. Some of the sharings from that circle are included here. (See also two pages of photos from the weekend.) | |||
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Who's Douglas?! On Good Friday of last year, Douglas passed into the mystery. He was 70 years old. He and Stan had lived "just down the road" from Light Morning since 1976. In this eulogy, offered at Doug's memorial service on Beltane (May Day), Robert gathers a bouquet of memories about someone who was both a close personal friend and a passionate, prickly figure at the heart of this community for over two decades. | |||
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Remembering Tom Tom started visiting Light Morning soon after we arrived here and eventually moved into the community in 1985. He died a month after Douglas. (Both of them are buried just below the fire circle on Temple Hill.) In this letter, which was sent to Tom's family and to his many friends, Marlene invokes the generous, playful, questing spirit of someone who graced our daily lives for many years. | |||
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Choosing to Age in Community One of Tom's greatest gifts to us was his inspiring example of someone who was choosing to age with dignity, grace, and awareness. His path of aging certainly had its share of bumps and bruises, but he took them in stride, refusing to yield to the stereotypes about "old age" and all the cultural expectations and pressures that go along with these stereotypes. In this 1995 interview, Tom shares his remarkable life story and his views on living, aging, and dying well. | |||
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Associations of the Light Morning Light Morning is the name of the community. Associations of the Light Morning (or ALM for short) is the more encompassing name that was offered to us in 1973, when we first came together as a group. The distinction between the two names is an important one. This article, or "reading", explores some of the implications of the phrase light morning. It also explains why the word associations is plural rather than singular. | |||
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