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Reconnecting Generations

Tuesday Jun 01 2010

This blog post is reprinted with the kind permission of Grace Lee Boggs. It was originally published in the Living for Change Newsletter, published by the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that the human race can only continue to evolve if we overcome the age segregation that has contributed so much to our dehumanization over the last few decades.

When I was an undergraduate in the early 1930s, I heard Ira D. Reid speak at a weekend college conference and learned truths about the African American experience which I felt had been kept from me.  At the time I was in my teens. So Dr. Reid (1901-1968), who was in his 30s and director of research for the Urban League, seemed much older and wiser than I would ever be. 

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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: elders generations grace_lee_boggs hope intergenerational_conversation reconnecting wisdom young_people

Wisdom 101: A matter of time

Tuesday Apr 20 2010

By Jim Selman | Bio
The older I am, the more I reflect on the aphorisms all around us and wonder why it is so difficult to accept and live with this obvious wisdom. Robert Fulghum memorialized many of them in his bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. All of these little ‘nuggets’ of wisdom we’ve accumulated over the years are generally, well, wise. It is befuddling why so few people take them to heart. Why do so many spend a lifetime learning these kinds of lessons the hard way?[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: aphorisms choice elders experience learning life_lessons pavlov's_dog robert_fulghum wisdom

7 Reasons Why Elders Make Great Lovers (and have better sex)

Tuesday Feb 02 2010

   By Jim Selman | Bio
There is an old joke that says, “Sex after 60 is better than ever, but the mounting and dismounting aren’t so pretty.” If you’re laughing, you know what I’m talking about. If not, you’re still young enough to have something to look forward to. I attended a conference recently featuring Steve Pavlina, the number one blogger on personal development. The topic was about expanding traffic to your blog and one of his ideas was to write about something ‘timeless’, something that lots of people have in common and that breaks the mold of everyone’s expectations. Well, my writing has been about transforming our notions of growing older and to encourage intergenerational dialogue, so what better topic to muse on than SEX.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging being conversation development ecstasy elders feeling giving growing intergenerational judgement love lovers older patience pavlina personal present receiving relationships satisfaction sex sexual-satisfaction steve wisdom

Elders and the Environment - Part 2

Friday Nov 13 2009

By Shae Hadden
According to Dr. David Suzuki, “it is not progress to use up the rightful legacy of our children and grandchildren.” He opened the first Elders and the Environment Forum on Monday in Vancouver, Canada with a keynote address that focused on the role of elders in the environmental movement and how we can make a difference:[Read More]

Written by eldering at News

Tagged with: david_suzuki elders environment future generations relationship

Ageism 2009

Monday Nov 02 2009

   By Jim Selman | Bio
There is nothing new about ageism, other than the fact that there are increasing numbers of people growing older (which means increasing numbers of examples of age discrimination against older people). The latest statistics from AARP show formal anti-discrimination complaints are up roughly 30% in the workplace. I had some fun with this in my recent blog, proposing we create the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.). However, it isn’t a laughing matter when we see a potentially tragic problem growing in our society that can be prevented.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aarp ageism discrimination elders national_organization_of_pissed_off_elders

N.O.P.E.: National Organization of Pissed Off Elders

Monday Oct 26 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders (N.O.P.E.).

What’s pissing us off?

A lot more than just ‘aging’ issues like Social Security, pharmaceuticals and our sex lives.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging bureaucrats capitalism common_sense compassion customer_service decency drag_race elders freedom goodwill ideology nope politics power principles scooters sex slogan social_security zoomers

Family Day

Monday Feb 16 2009

   By Kevin Brown | Bio

Today is ‘Family Day’, a public holiday in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.  It is also celebrated in South Africa, in the Australian Capital Territory, in the state of Arizona in the U.S., and in the Republic of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. In Alberta where I live, ‘Family Day’ was declared to recognize the values[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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Tagged with: elders family multigenerational values wisdom

Vanishing Pensions

Friday Jan 23 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
I have had several conversations with friends in Buenos Aires about how people deal with their financial security in their older years. To my surprise, the uniform answer is that they mostly don’t. Then I hear a story which, by my naïve North American standards is shocking, but whhich reveals something important for all of us as we contemplate our own future and worry about the uncertainties in the financial markets. The story goes like this.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Retirement

Tagged with: bankruptcy eldering elders government pension retirement uncertainty

Multi-Generational Collaboration: Shaping Tomorrow, Together II

Thursday Nov 27 2008

By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Samantha Tan | World Cafe website

Read the first post in this series.

What Are We Learning?
At the Shambhala Institute and in subsequent gatherings exploring multi-generational partnership, we have experienced a similar outpouring of excitement and engagement. Key multi-generational dialogues aimed at building bridges between the generations have now been sponsored by Pegasus Communications at their international Systems Thinking in Action conferences, by the Institute for Noetic Sciences, the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, Meditation Mount and the Ojai Foundation, the World Café, and others. In 2005,

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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: elders intergenerational_dialogue leaders multigenerational shambhala_institute

Privatizing Trust

Wednesday Oct 29 2008

   By Jim Selman | Bio
One of the central tenets of my work is that everything happens in a context of relationship—a shared background of concerns, commitments and practices—what I call a background of relatedness. We may make commitments as individuals, but we always fulfill them in networks of relationships with other people. The other day I was asking, “What does it mean for an economy to collapse?” What is the worst-case scenario of the current ‘meltdown’ and ‘freezing of credit’? (Interesting that these two most frequently used metaphors, extremes of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ are referring to the same thing and both are ‘state’ changes.) My conclusion is that...[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: economy elders possibilities privatization relatedness trust

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