Eddie Gonzalez is director of engagement and social healing at The On Being Project. Gonzalez works at the intersections of creative expression and spiritual care, as well as digital media and community engagement. With degrees in journalism and creative writing, he became a hospice chaplain in 2009 and since then has worked within health care and national nonprofits to create meaningful spaces for storytelling, compassionate listening, and reflective dialogue. Gonzalez has a deep interest in the relationship between inner and outer life and how the stories we tell can have profound impacts on ourselves, each other, and the natural world. He finds inspiration and solace in the arts, the outdoors, and time spent with loved ones.
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Contemporary American society is deeply age segregated. Youth spend most of their time in school or with peers and older people head to senior centers and retirement communiti...