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Wednesday May 07 2008

    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.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: being context home people place

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Tuesday Oct 02 2007

   My recent vacation has been a wonderful opportunity to take a much-needed break from my work and travels. It has also been an opportunity to reflect on the four questions I mentioned in my Idleness post that were posed by Richard Leider in his great book Claiming Your Place at the Fire. The title refers to an aboriginal tradition of giving the seats closest to the fire to the community’s elders—not because it is warmer, but because that is the place that one’s voice can be most easily heard by others. One of his questions that I am reflecting on today is, “Where do I belong?”[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Retirement
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