🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Virginia Burggraf wrote:

>           George,
>
>           I tried to get the jest of what you were saying, but
>           lost it possibly in my own translation.  As a policy
>           analyst and also author of gerontological nursing texts and
>           articles I think you were trying to say that man when he
>           ages still has a need to be loved and belong
>           and this may not manifest itself in touching or

No, that is not what I was trying to say.  I was answering a posting
where that position was taken.  I was saying that although it is
sometimes true, there are those for whom old age means turning inward and
forsaking love.  To my 50 year old psyche this sounds terribly sad, but I
am coming to understand that projective identification is rampant
amgongst us.  So it may not be so sad to my 90 year old father.  Of
course, when one is good at empathy, projections are a pretty good way of
understanding the other.



>           socialization. I am very analyitical and philosphical in my
>           approach. As I age, I now experience the many consequences
>           that I have taught and write about.  The reality makes me
>           delve deeper as I wish to convey not only my thoughts but
>           the reality of what does indeed exist.
>
>           How then, as I age, do I communicate that I still feel,
>           desire...although my youth is not visible, my heart is
>           light and ready for flight?
>
I hope that you cultivate a gift for the printed word, since you do seem
to have much to say to us.

May I ask:  where do you work?  Do you teach nurses only?  Will you be in
LA for the GSA meetings?

George