The opposite of loneliness and isolation is belonging. Belonging looks different to each of us and we can belong in several spaces at the same time. I was recently in London and my younger brother happened to be there at the same time. Our scheduled aligned so we were able to spend a day together walking, laughing, talking and making time to visit a gravely ill family friend. As we explored the city where we lived as teenagers and where my brother later spent much of his

Joy There are many kinds of freedom. Financial freedom. Emotional freedom. Personal freedom. Freedom from responsibility, expectation, fear or limitation. Whenever I think about the word freedom, there is emotion attached to it. Freedom suggests possibility. It tells us there are options, that we have choices and those choices can create opportunities. For many of us, though, freedom is something we imagine in the future. When the children grow up. When the mortgage is paid.