Death is the Best Trip of All — That’s Why it’s Saved for Last

Name: Death is the Best Trip of All — That’s Why it’s Saved for Last
Start: 2025-01-11T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Follen Church - Unitarian Universalist

Schedule

Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Follen Church - Unitarian Universalist | Lexington, MA

This evening, longtime and beloved teacher Michael Koran will explore— despite increasing physical challenges from his inoperable and growing sinus cancer—how unrelenting love from family and friends helps make each day better than the last. He will discuss transformative moments in his current “life-through-death” journey that share how, for him, “death is the best trip of all.” He will also share how his marriage to his domestic partner on the day before Thanksgiving 2024, has helped consummate his life. With famously good humor Michael has asked friends, an engaged couple, if it would be okay for him to be reborn as their child. The bride-to-be said, “I’ll know my child is Michael if the baby’s first word is “Wow!” This evening will consist of stories about Michael’s “birth through death” journey, his four best jokes, four songs he has written, and four mantras with mudras (a word with a physical gesture that inspires a spiritual state.) After sharing his experience, Michael will converse with LCE’s Director and participants about his journey and realization. For this event admission cost entitles participants to a book.
Michael Koran is a seeker, teacher, community television host, author, dancer and a great friend and supporter of the idea and practice of adult and community education. His generosity of intelligence, time, and joy has been inspirational to many over the years. As a greatly admired instructor at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education for over four decades, Michael has taught over 100 courses on literature, theater, psychology, poetry, mythology and religion. Lexington Community Education has had the honor to have Michael teaching over Zoom for the last four years. On this special in-person evening event, LCE honors Michael and his long and joyful teaching career. Michael’s books Verse To Better: A Poem For Each Day Of Our Year, and Heel Soul: 366 Ways to Dance Through Our Days will be available at the event.