
Welcome to Elder Pathways
Our Vision is to model and champion Elder values and be actively involved in making a positive difference in our world.
Our Mission is to engage Elders in meaningful areas of service, to act on our individual and collective responsibility for the well being of future generations, and to support one another on a path of emotional maturity, spiritual awareness, and deepening community.
Here you’ll find articles written by Elders for Elders.
Featured Articles

Go see the great Carlini

Asking for What I Want – guest post from Erin Brandt

Being a Sexually Authentic, Conscious and Empowered Man

Finding My Way Back Home
by Bruce Mulkey, originally published on his blog, brucemulkey.com It was a warm June evening in 1961, the night of my graduation from Tullahoma High School. I’d just returned to Tennessee from playing in a high school all-American football game in Fort Lauderdale,...

I am the sky, and so are you
From the Department of ... Share. by Dave Klaus, reprinted with permission I was on such a roll the last several months, and then the fires came and the air that tasted like fear and destruction and people living in tents in the parking lot of the fairgrounds, it...

12 Rules for Being a Great Man Part 2
12 Rules for Being a Great Man: How to Be Wildly Successful at the Game of Life Part 2 by Jed Diamond, reprinted with permission. This is a longer article than most I write, but one that I believe is very important in today’s world. If we only read the headlines in...

12 Rules for Being a Great Man Part 1
12 Rules for Being a Great Man Part 1: How to Be Wildly Successful at the Game of Life by Jed Diamond, reprinted with permission. also see Part 2 I’ve always liked rules and I know I’m not alone. Social scientist Joyce F. Benenson says “Boys have an incredible...

Encounters with Shakespeare
by Rob Peck When the last bell rang at 2:55 pm, three years after I'd left I returned to Tenafly High. The hallways of my old high school hadn't changed. Hopefully homeroom assignments hadn't either. Just before 3 o'clock I slipped into Room 212. Frank Spada (my 11th...

Considering the Autumn – an Elder Journey
by Terry Jones In considering the stages of my life I often think about the seasons. Spring was about birth. Summer was a time of blossoming, growing up. Autumn is a time of harvest. Autumn asks that we harvest our long life experience—that we be wise in the ways of...

Mr. Sacco
This last four days I've been deep in the woods and water of Ontario. I was spending time with a man I first met in fifth grade at Earle Brown Elementary School. He was my teacher then and still is today ... some 50 years later. Joe used to smuggle art books into...