Sage-ing With Creative Spirit, Grace and Gratitude

SAGE-ING with Creative Spirit, Grace & Gratitude || The Journal of Creative Aging


Sage-ing with Creative Spirit

Who We Are



Karen Close ||  holds a BA and BEd with specialist certification in the visual arts. She is a grandmother, a painter, author of two books, and an ardent arts advocate. Teaching English and Visual Arts for 30 years seeded her appreciation for the healing benefits of creative expression as the vehicle for discovering and sharing who we are. In 2010 Karen received federal funding from New Horizon's For Seniors to begin the program Sage-ing With Creative Spirit in Kelowna.

JohannaÊBeyers ||  Êis a poet and mixed media artist. She began her career as a marine paleontologist, and holds a PhD in environmental policy and a MasterÕs of Social Work. She is a certified sandplay therapist. The pivotal concept emerging from these fields and uniting her work is that of deep time and the continuity of life, including rocks. Psyche is embedded in deep time Ð in the earth, its plants and animals, and in us humans Ð as vast, inexhaustible, awe-inspiring, surprising and mysterious.ÊJohannaÊis the author ofÊSandbar IslandsÊ(The Caitlin Press, 1988) andÊWearing my Feathered HatÊ(Wind Oak & Dove, 2013). She has been copy-editor forÊSage-ingÊsince 2018. She lives in northwestern B.C.

Robert MacDonald ||  is a typographer by trade, and has substantial practical, hands-on experience in graphic and typographic design for print and interactive media, in editorial development, advertising creative, copywriting, consumer and professional marketing, and business development. He has consulted at a senior level, and provided creative and management services, to museums and art galleries, government departments, education institutions, public service organizations and associations, publishing media and software companies, and enterprises in the travel, product distribution, packaged goods, professional services, software and technology sectors. He is an active community volunteer, and has served as a board member of the Central Okanagan Hospice Association, Vision North Okanagan, Okanagan Network for the Environment, Okanagan Media Alliance, Society for Learning in Retirement and the Design CoLaboratory. He is the Publisher in Residence at Okanagan College, and the founding director of the Okanagan Institute.


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