Dejunk, scale down, downsize, reduce. The pressure started when I turned 60 and has amped up 5 years later as I consider moving. Now I get to deal with all the stuff I have saved in case it would come in handy Someday. My quest has led me to realize that most of those things[…]
We are excited–and challenged–to be offering in person workshops again. Excited because it’s the best way to connect and share with like-minded souls seeking to age consciously and intentionally. Challenged because we lost our momentum when COVID became the dictator of our reality. The thrust of our Nov. 15 workshop is “Meaning Making in (and[…]
Reading through journal entries from the last 3 years I had an insight that aging offers us the same life altering opportunity as did the Covid era. As Covid-19 advanced, and insinuated itself into our day to day reality, many people experienced fear, confusion, and uncertainty. They suffered imposed isolation with feelings of ennui, uneasiness,[…]
In my relatively new retirement phase I am re-reading Creative Aging: Rethinking Retirement and Non-Retirement in a Changing World by Marjory Zoet Bankson. Bankson gave me pause when she used the phrase, “carry the ambitions of others” (Creative Aging p7) as she wrote about many of us “looking for ways to slow down and[…]
“The energy involved in resisting the truth of aging and dyingcan keep us confined in a limited experience of living;a limited experience of the simple joy of being [in the] here and now.” Kathleen Dowling Singh This Grace in Aging series extends our 8 years of facilitated discussion groups based on our concept of Conscious[…]
Retirement is wonderful. Despite what I see as competing demands on my time necessitating constant scheduling, the past six months have been refreshing. Everything I am doing is what I think I want to be doing yet the trick remains parceling out 24 hours in a day to incorporate spouse, grandkids, kids, friends, employers that[…]
The point of departure for this integrating reflection was growing awareness of my personal sense of desire for a different/ enhanced experience, of my own personal Everyday Spirituality as I contemplated the shape and character of my own Future Story. Non-obviously related was a SEER- group member’s comments that some of our discussions about Future[…]
I am old The blessings of age ready to pick Thrive Survive Create and share Wisdom and experience Open to growing, learning, embracing Closer than ever to understanding More Always more.
At midlife, at and in early retirement, and later life, people paying attention to their own life sooner or later find themselves with new, evolving, and maturing questions. All sorts of questions, mostly difficult ones. Psychological ones like, “why isn’t life working out as I expected?” And what can I do about that, now?” Spiritual[…]
A week ago, we completed another retreat where we talked about the benefits of conscious aging as a spiritual practice, and four major obstacles that commonly undermine it. Then we talked about ways to overcome that typically undermine our own well-being as we age. One thing we didn’t talk about, however, was the social taboo[…]