Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

The unchosen Lent of old age…

A lively thinker and great talker — a man who lived to think and to share his thoughts — couldn’t any more. Dorothy Day’s mentor and friend Peter Maurin had been one of those men of innocence and energy, who walk into the room and start talking, throwing off ideas like fireworks. Now his mind was going. He was a month short of 70…