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Harold's Story - Part 3

Friday Oct 30 2009

By Stuart J. Whitley | Bio
I read somewhere that good decision-making—indeed, good relations—depends upon a virtuous cycle of respect, trust and candour (which takes some time to establish, but which can easily be interrupted). Attitude, after all, is everything. Perhaps that last statement needs a bit of refinement: the ethical attitude is everything. By that I mean the determination of the answer to the age-old question: who is right? Was Harold right to[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: age candour decision-making ethical_attitude experience judgement justice moral_choice respect trust wisdom

Life Expectancy

Thursday Sep 03 2009

   By Kevin Brown | Bio

Last week I read that life expectancy in the United States has now reached 78 years of age. As reported by Associated Press, a baby born in 2007 can expect to live to the age of 78. The same report noted that heart disease and cancer together were the cause of nearly half of U.S. fatalities, and that Alzheimer's disease has surpassed diabetes to become the sixth leading cause of death.  Regardless of how long we can expect to live, everyone has
a date at which time life, as we know it, will come to an end. Whether by natural or unnatural causes, our life on earth will have a conclusion. Wikipedia defines “life expectancy” as

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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age aging eldering_manifesto future life_expectancy retirement

Eldering: Transforming Age

Monday Aug 24 2009

   By Jim Selman | Bio
I think that one of the things going on these days is that ‘Baby Boomers’ are waking up to the fact that they have a choice about how they age and what it means to be old. The Boomer label is just a demographic slogan. Personally, I don’t like being lumped into a single category with 70 million other folks. This sociological category of “Baby Boomer” (which is now almost synonymous with growing older) makes it easy for us to slip into generalizations about age and aging, generalizations that have been here for generations. Even when we attempt to show how Boomers aren’t like other generations, we are subtly reinforcing a profoundly negative and disempowering stereotype of what it means to grow older.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age boomers eldering growing_older

Learning to Die

Tuesday Jul 21 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
Socrates said that we don’t really have wisdom until we learn to die. Cornell West said the same thing in the acclaimed documentary Examined Life by Astra Taylor. When I first became interested in aging and how our culture views ‘growing older’ many years ago, I learned that, beyond a certain age, very few people seem to be afraid of death. Some may be afraid of dying with unfinished business, but we eventually reach a point when the fact of our death is no longer such a big deal. The big question is when will we face the fact that we will die?[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age dr._judith_rich learning_to_die living_in_the_present surrender wisdom

A Life Worth Living

Monday Jul 20 2009

   By Jim Selman | Bio
The following thoughts were shared by a friend of mine on the question of what it is like to ‘be’ older and wiser. I think they express something we can all learn from if we haven’t already. "What’s it like to 'be' my age? Besides the obvious physical changes, there is a kind of[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age grace love wisdom

No Regrets, Let's Clean Up the Mess Together - Part II

Tuesday Jun 16 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
"The worldviews of our two generations are both equally valid. They are simply our assessments of ‘the way it is’ and what is and is not possible. Neither of our assessments are ‘the truth’. And neither are ‘false’. Understanding this doesn’t make understanding each other’s perspective any easier.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: age commencement conventional eldering jones obama speches van wisdom

No Regrets, Let’s Clean Up the Mess Together

Monday Jun 15 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
The Wall Street Journal last week had an article on the new theme of the annual commencement speech celebrity sweepstakes: “We are really, really sorry”. On campus after campus, speakers of the Boomer generation were apologizing to the twenty-something generation (I don’t remember the nomenclature for this batch of graduates) for the self-centered and often greedy abuses of the ‘me’ generation. This old theme had the ring of a “mea culpa” without showing much of an agenda for doing much about anything—coming across more like a challenge to the young to not make our mistakes. Some of the youthful attendees rightfully asked, “Why don’t you clean up the mess you made?”[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: age commencement conventional eldering jones obama speches van wisdom

Pro Age: Wrinkles and Advertising

Wednesday May 20 2009

Well, Dove's pro-age advertising campaign may have been banned in the US. But the conversation continues. Here's a new video about the thinking behind the campaign. What do YOU think?  

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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age dove wrinkles

Still Going Strong

Wednesday May 06 2009

The Herald Sun recently featured an article on Betty Calman, an 83-year-old instructor still going strong after 40 years of teaching yoga. Author of 3 books on yoga and a pioneer in bringing this practice to Australia in the 1950s, Ms. Calman was drawn back into teaching up to 11 classes per week 8 years ago by her daughter, who runs a health centre and needed more instructors. According to Betty, "You're never too old. The body is a remarkable instrument. It can stretch and stretch, and get better all the time. Forget age. Even a basic posture, or just going to a window and breathing deeply, can have big benefits." See Betty Calman in action.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Health

Tagged with: age body old yoga

What's the Game?

Friday Feb 13 2009

   By Jim Selman | Bio
The early Boomer retirees are rewriting the book of what ‘freedom from having to earn a living’ means. Of course, there is the rush to enjoy some of the perks of our new-found freedom. But once the lustre of all that unscheduled time wears off, we're faced with the realization that retirement can also mean the freedom to take on those issues we either didn’t have time for when we were younger or were afraid to risk what we had going at the time for. But for most, this freedom means the opportunity to learn, to engage in some form of creativity and to step up to the challenge and opportunity of ‘Eldering’—being of service to the community and to those that follow, using our life experience and wisdom for the betterment of our world.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: age boomer eldering fernando_flores freedom game responsibility

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