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    The Zen of Retirement Living

    Sep 22, 2020 2 minutes

    HAD SOMEONE TOLD Susan O’Connell, when she started her Zen journey over thirty years ago, that one day the San Francisco Zen Center would be a partner in a retirement community, she would have politely questioned their sanity.

    And yet today that very same Susan O’Connell is spearheading one of the most audacious Life Plan Communities ever

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