Welcome to this series of observations and musings on a life transition. I lived in a spiritual community for more than three decades. When the time came to make my home elsewhere, I saw the move as a re-entry. Re-entry means going back. A spacecraft in re-entry has been inhabiting another atmosphere. On such a re-entry, you need to gird yourself against returning to a …
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I’m Margaret Bendet. I had a journalism career, and then I lived for quite some time in a spiritual community. For almost two decades, I wrote a blog I named “Re-Entry.” In that time, I’ve moved from Washington state to California, and it seems to me that I have by now successfully re-entered the greater community. My focus is shifting to being a woman in my eighties. So, I’m renaming my blog “The Final Decades.” It feels apt.