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