The Joys & Challenges of Aging Book Club with Carrie Waller
Bloom’s book club is back. The book club, facilitated by Carrie Waller, focuses on the joys and challenges of aging. It meets six times over the course of one year (once every other month) and features six books covering a variety of aging-related topics. You can view the first three books in the series below.
Each two-hour session starts with a gentle yoga practice, transitions to a group discussion, and closes with a short meditation. These sessions enable participants to build connections with others in the Bloom community who share similar interests.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir, by Delia Ephron
Author Delia Ephron, sister and writing partner of Nora Ephron, has produced a beautiful memoir of loss and renewal. Ephron shares stories about the loss of her sister, husband, and her own life-threatening health challenges. At the same time, she offers a story of hope, new romantic love, and the essential social support we all need to walk each other home.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
The Signal Fires, by Dani Shapiro
Signal Fires is a beautiful exploration of the connections between families and the reverberations of family secrets. The author, Dani Shapiro, helps readers imagine how each of the characters’ lives might have gone if things had turned out differently; and in turn, helps readers consider the same about their own lives. Shapiro also teases out the notion that maybe time does not happen chronologically but that our life’s events and memories are unfolding together - all around us, all at once, all the time. A thought-provoking book.
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Long Life and Other Essays, Mary Oliver
If you enjoy Mary Oliver’s poetry, you will probably enjoy her prose. In this book, Oliver offers “little alleluias” to the bounties of nature, animals, the soul, place, and literature. She also includes some thoughtful essays on William Wordsworth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It’s a beautiful, inspirational, uplifting piece of literature.
Register for an individual session or all three!
Cost per session: $40, or $100 if registered for all 3
Bloom Member Individual Session: $35
The Joys & Challenges of Aging Book C...
Date and Time
Thursday May 16, 2024
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM CDT
Location
Bloom Yoga Studio
4663 N Rockwell Street
Chicago IL 60625
Fees/Admission
Cost per session: $40
Bloom Member Individual Session: $35
Contact Information
Bloom Yoga Studio, 4663 N Rockwell Street, Chicago IL 60625
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