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I'll Never...Part II

Tuesday Aug 26 2008

   By Elizabeth Russell | Bio

Read Part I of this series


As soon as I got over thinking of myself as an oddity in the environment and began looking around, I discovered some very interesting people. One of the early people I met had been a detective (a Private I!) for over 35 years and had some hair-raising stories to tell, including her gathering evidence against an East Bay union boss who was using sexual coercion against women seeking work.

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Written by admin at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging old_folks_home people

Inside the Rainbow

Friday Aug 15 2008

   By Jim Selman | Bio
If we think about retirement or growing older in general, it seems to me that most of us are trying to figure out what we want for our future. Our orientation is to explore options given whatever opening we have, rather than to consider that aging is an opening and the challenge is to create new possibilities—not simply cope with our circumstances.[Read More]

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Tagged with: aging perspective rainbow retirement wisdom

To Fret or Not to Fret

Thursday Aug 14 2008

   By Marilyn Kentz | Bio | Website

Unlike in our mothers' and grandmothers' day, you and I are bombarded with young, beautifully and magically enhanced women 24 hours every day. Frequent ads remind us that we should be defying our age. Half the time, I don't even know I should be worried about something until a commercial tells me so.

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Tagged with: age_spot aging change purpose wrinkles

Boomer Boredom

Monday Jul 28 2008

   By Jim Selman | Bio

Of all the complaints and fears we hear that are associated with aging, the number one is boredom. After a lifetime of activity and accomplishment, it is incredible how many of us move into “elderland” only to discover that we’re unsatisfied and bored. How can this be? Granted that we might not be as spry as we once were and some of our libidos are lackluster, but goodness gracious, do we really expect our circumstances to make us happy or enthusiastic or interested in other people and the possibilities of each and every day?

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Tagged with: aging boredom circumstances game generation life play

Embracing What Is

Thursday Jul 10 2008

By Eliezer Sobel | Website


There is much talk on Serene Ambition and elsewhere about altering one’s perspective and internal conversation about aging so as to “create a future to live into” that infuses the present with passion and energy, as distinct from the dreary resignation of merely playing out the repetitive and predictable habits and tendencies generated by the past. And yet, while this sounds good in theory, what of the physical limitations imposed by age?

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Tagged with: aging conversation possibility suffering time

I am not a thing

Wednesday Jul 02 2008

   By Jim Selman | Bio
I just saw the movie WALL-E about a lonely robot on planet earth 700 years after a Wal-Mart-like enterprise wins the game of mega mergers and is the only corporation left, effectively running the world. The people had to leave because they couldn’t keep up with the trash. WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth Class) spends its days (we soon begin to think of it as a ‘he’ thanks to some brilliant scripting and Pixar magic) creating skyscraper-scale mountains of trash. It is a great film and brilliantly delivers ‘social responsibility’ messages while telling a beautiful love story that meshes with some profoundly human moments when people wake up to the possibility of having a choice combined with responsibility for cleaning up the mess we made in the 20th and 21st centuries.[Read More]

Written by admin at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging commitment possibility relationship unreasonable worldview

What Conversation Are You?

Monday Jun 23 2008

  By Jim Selman | Bio
As many of you know, I view aging, and the rest of life for that matter, as a series of conversations. In my work, I try to show people that if we can observe ourselves and our world through the lens of language, we can see that everything we think and experience occurs in the context of some interpretation or another. For most people most of the time, our interpretation is that there is a ‘real world’ out there, and if we could only understand it and control it (and ourselves), then we’d be okay and win whatever game we’re playing. Of course, in this interpretation (called the Cartesian paradigm), people (that means us) are objects and our conversation about aging is basically that we wear out like our cars and eventually aren’t useful any longer.[Read More]

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Tagged with: aging conversation empowerment possibility wisdom

Madrid

Monday May 05 2008

Today is a holiday in Madrid. There must be a million people on the streets.  There is a lots of military pomp, soldiers marching by the review stand near my hotel, and five planes flying overhead. The weather is beautiful and life is good.  I am always delighted to have a day off when I am in a city to just experience ‘being here’. Madrid's downtown core is beautiful—great old buildings, wide avenues, a magnificent palace with a living monarch, and a great ‘old town’ where you can almost get a ‘feel’ for the Spanish Inquisition. I like Spain a lot. If I were to live in Europe, it would be a toss-up between France, Denmark, England and Spain. These days, warm weather is winning.[Read More]

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Tagged with: aging being eldering

Toward an Ethic of Aging II

Wednesday Apr 23 2008

  By Stuart J. Whitley | Bio
Ethics concerns the attempt by disciplined discernment to identify moral options available in a given case, around which there is some general agreement. Professional societies and other groups, through statements of ethical standards or codes of conduct, attempt to assert rules about rightness of conduct that rise above the minimum standards of the law. This is most often referred to as ‘applied ethics’.[Read More]

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Tagged with: aging duty ethics morals responsibilities

Acceptance

Wednesday Apr 16 2008

I don't think that age is personal. I know it feels like it is 'me' that is getting older, but I don't experience myself as older. If anything, I experience my 'self' as being 'better' than at any time I can remember over the past 66 years. I feel more 'alive', more engaged, more present and more satisfied than ever. It is true that my body can’t run, wrestle or climb as easily as in the past. I make love more often than in the best moments of my youth and, best of all, I am experienced enough to enjoy it more. While age is always relative, I can't really think of anything about being my age that isn't wonderful. Moreover, I am looking forward to every day being the best yet.[Read More]

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Tagged with: acceptance age aging appreciation choice control denial resist surrender

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