Death, like the sun cannot be looked at steadily.”  So said the noted French author Francois de la Rochefoucauld. Dr. David Welch, a former professor of psychology, who taught a course in Death and Dying for many years at the college level, differs with de la Rochefoucauld.  “However true he may have been about the sun, he was wrong about death. Not only can we as people look at death and dying; it isnecessary if we are to live our lives fully. One vehicle to help us is poetry.”

 
Over the years of teaching the course, Dr. Welch encouraged students to bring poems they thought helped them deal with the idea of death and dying. In his message “So Immense a Thing as Death” Dr. Welch will consider death and dying through the eyes of poets unknown, well-known and, perhaps, known only to their family and friends.
Please join us this Sunday at 10:30am for this thought provoking talk.

Dr. Welch received his doctorate from the University of Florida and is professor emeritus of the University of Northern Colorado.  As a psychologist, his practice focused on grief and bereavement and in working with people who suffered with chronic disease.  He moved to Hot Springs Village in 2010 from St Paul, Minnesota where he retired as the Dean of the Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

Dr. Welch is married and he and his wife, Marie, have two children and three grandchildren.

Join us at 9:00am for the Wisdom Seekers as we start a new book.

We will have coffee, tea and light snacks at 10:00am

Hope to see you there.