Passion and Purpose |
Thursday Nov 13 2008
By Jim Selman | BioI was working on the design of a course the other day and musing about what would someone in my circumstances want to ‘get’ from a workshop about ‘designing the rest of my life’. When I began to think about it, I realized I’m happy and okay financially. I have lots of friends and family and experience lots of love. I am still engaged in my career and have numerous outlets for my creative impulses. All in all, I can’t think of much that I want that I don’t have or couldn’t easily acquire. But the one thing that did occur to me is that I would like to have the kind of passion I felt in the ‘70s when we were crusading for civil rights, campaigning for peace, and bringing down those who supported the war in Viet Nam. It was the kind of passion I saw again in Chicago as Obama became our president elect.[Read More]
Written by admin at Fearless Aging
I don’t think it is news to anyone that we experience life through its
contrasts. We don’t notice or appreciate hot until we get cold; we can
take kindness for granted until it goes missing; we typically put off
taking care of our health until it starts to deteriorate. At this
moment, I am half-way through the longest trip of my life—mostly work
with some vacation thrown in around the edges. Consequently, I am very
present to how important ‘home’ is to me now that I am away from it for
so long. In my case, Vancouver British Columbia is home. It is a home
of my own choosing that I stumbled into while visiting my daughter when
she was attending school on Vancouver Island. As someone who has lived
in a lot of places, I found Vancouver to be everything I ever wanted.
It was love at first sight.[
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