By Don Arnoudse |
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In his wonderful book
From Age-ing to Sage-ing, Rabbi Zalman
Schachter-Shalomi notes that the Bible is lavish in its praise of
elders. ”It considers gray hair a crown of glory and wrinkles a mark of
distinction.” This really got me thinking. What if we regarded the last
part of our life—let’s just say the years after our hair goes gray—to
be the “crowning glory of our years”? Wow! What would be possible from
that perspective?[
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By Don Arnoudse
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My daughter, Sara, is about to turn 21. Her impending birthday has
triggered my own memories of that familiar refrain of youth…”I can’t
wait until I’m old enough to….go to school, to learn to drive, to vote,
to get a credit card, to stay out past midnight, to travel on my own,
to get my first apartment, to get my first real job, to go to night
clubs and bars, and so on and so on.”
It got me to wondering. What are the advantages of age now that I’m
staring 60 in the face? Yesterday, I was listening to Julio Olalla,
master teacher and founder of the Newfield Network. He began his
comments on some of the crises we face in the world by saying, “At my
age, I no longer choose to censor myself”. I thought, “Wow! That’s an
advantage of age. Telling the truth as I see it without concern for
others’ reactions.”[
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