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Friday Feb 05 2010 By Elizabeth Brown We’ve already experienced what works and doesn’t work for us regarding sex. And now we know it is about passion, trust and playfulness…[Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging Tagged with: elder health love pleasure satisfaction sex soul
Wednesday Oct 28 2009  By Stuart J. Whitley | BioI had lunch with an old friend, a Tlingit elder, Harold, today. I’ve known Harold for nearly a dozen years. And I know him to be a serious, thoughtful man; he’s someone who has taught me many things, not the least of which was the powerful consequence of even the smallest positive intervention in someone’s life. I have seen it in action: Harold is the embodiment of Emerson’s dictum that[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: assessments bigotry elder judgements love race_relations racist service tlingit
Wednesday Oct 14 2009  By Jim Selman | BioI was listening to a lecture today on the philosopher Martin Heidegger. He is pretty difficult to understand at the best of times, even though I have been a student of his thinking for many years. The lecture today spoke of the distinction he made between ‘tradition’, which he felt was a bad thing, and ‘heritage’, which he thought was a good thing. In fact, he felt heritage was essential to understanding the true nature of ‘Being’. I won’t pretend to grasp it all fully, but what I did get was that[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: elder future heidegger heritage past tradition truth wisdom_in_action
Wednesday Sep 30 2009 By Stuart J Whitley | BioIn my last post I wondered about whether or not there was an ethic of aging. Again, by ‘ethics’ I mean simply some general consensus or agreement about what is good about the way we relate to one another. This is a group or communal expression of belief, rather than an individual or moral outlook. The distinction is thus simply drawn between morals and ethics, terms which are often interposed. I should be more explicit and ask whether there is a reasonable consensus around obligations associated with the process of aging. One needs to be clear about such things because there are many ethical issues relating to this subject: the diminishment of worth of old people and their relegation to institutional repositories, the abuse of the elderly, the genetic or pharmaceutical tinkering with the aging process, and so on.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging Tagged with: aboriginal aging cree duty elder elder_abuse eldering knowledge wisdom
Tuesday Aug 18 2009
Cooking with my daughter, Krista, is bliss. We were making Crabby Crabcakes, an incredible recipe from Mark Bittman at the NY Times. They were 99% crab with a little bit of stuff we purchased at the Queen Anne Farmers Market to hold them together: brand new potatoes baked with olive oil and rosemary, and sautéed summer squash and caramelized onions with herbs. (Can you stand it? Are you ready to rush out and cook and enjoy the wonderful tastes of fresh grown great food?) Our cooking together is like a dance—an intensive information and learning exchange.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: cooking elder eldering generation_gap learning marketing relationship technology
Thursday Aug 06 2009  By Kevin Brown | Bio
I had the pleasure of spending last weekend in San Francisco. It has been over 5 years since I last visited the city, and so I was looking forward to experiencing all that it and its people have to offer. From a tourist perspective, my expectations were met in terms of sightseeing, enjoying the variety of restaurants, and taking in some of the museums and art galleries. On this trip, however, my eye turned to the needy, the homeless, and the many people on the street who appeared in need of a meal, as well as to those who appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: budget_cuts community elder health_care san_francisco social_agencies
Friday Jun 26 2009  By Jim Selman | Bio
As founder of The Eldering Institute, I am a bit embarrassed to acknowledge that until last week I had not asked the straightforward question, “What is an elder?” This is not to say I haven’t been involved in the conversation for quite a long time. I have spoken with Elders in aboriginal communities, African tribes, and religious communities. I have read everything I can find on the subject. There is no doubt that the role of Elder has been important throughout human history and continues to be so in many communities on the planet. But understanding the role of an elder in a particular community context is not the same as understanding what an elder really is, at least in our modern world. To say this differently, how would you know if you were an Elder? How would you know one if you met him or her?[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
Thursday Mar 05 2009 By Kevin Brown | BioIt seems that no matter where I turn these days, the search for happiness seems to be on many people’s mind. Perhaps during this time of economic turmoil, people are reconsidering the happiness quotient they attributed to possessions and financial security. In the Telegraph of London, Richard Gray and Alastair Jamieson report that “Psychologists have found that people who spend their money on simple experiences such as going to the theatre, dining out or taking adventure holidays tend to be happier than those who buy possessions, regardless of how much they spend.”[Read More]
Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment Tagged with: alastair_jamieson deepak_chopra elder happiness richard_gray ryan_howell
Tuesday Mar 03 2009  By Jim Selman | Bio
Russell Bishop’s posting about ‘The Blame Game’ is right on the money. He uses the term “responsibility” as meaning the ability to respond —literally “response – ability”. I share his definition and am always asking people to see that responsibility has nothing to do with causality (as in who did it or who will do it). Responsibility is a relationship to the circumstances, a way of being—a declaration that we always have a choice. Anything we’re not responsible for, we are a victim of.[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: accountability commitment elder responsibility
Friday Jan 16 2009  By Jim Selman | Bio
There is a phenomenon I point to in my work called “already listening”. This is akin to the ‘little voice’ in our heads that goes on and on about everything. It is our internal and automatic ‘judgment muscle’. It is called already listening because it is what we bring to a conversation before anyone speaks. It is the “pre” filter that is always organizing what we think. It is not the same as hearing. We can all hear the same thing, but not ‘listen’ the same thing. Already listening is mostly cultural and always historical—it is based on our past. Already listening isn’t good or bad, but when we are unconscious about it,[Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: already_listening collaboration elder judgement wisdom |
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