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Friday Sep 21 2007

I am happy to be home, even when it’s only for a couple of days. Home is where we are when we feel most ourselves. It is, I think, a deep connection to a place, to people and one’s familiar surroundings. Growing up in the military meant we moved a lot and I think I associated home more with our furniture and my family than a particular place or even my friends—people who would, after all, be left behind next time we moved. This current respite from my schedule is relaxed and enjoyable as Darlene and I reconnect after being apart most of the summer. But it is also showing me how easy it is to lose one’s connection to home and those we love in the pace and pressure of working and travel.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Personal Empowerment
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Fork in the Road

Tuesday Oct 17 2006

I am 64 years old. Somehow the number seems significant, although I don't know why. Everyone I have ever spoken to about age agrees: they feel a lot younger than they imagined they would feel like at this age (however old they might be). It’s almost as if we reach a 'fork in the road' age-wise—a particular moment in time, usually in middle age, when we experience a total disconnect between what we see in the mirror and what we experience in our mind. I think this phenomenon, and the degree to which we experience the disconnect, reveals our resistance to aging (at best) and outright denial (at worst).