 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. [ Read More]
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 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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 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. [ Read More]
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 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? [ Read More]
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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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 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]
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 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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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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 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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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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