Serene Ambition : Weblog

Featured Blog Posts

Conversations on the Web

Foolishness

Tuesday Apr 01 2008

Today is the day for fools, foolishness and merry pranks played on friends, colleagues and neighbours. Because of the abundance of April Fools’ hoaxes in the media, many people distrust news reports and advertisements launched on this day. No such luck here at Serene Ambition…although, as in some countries like Britain, we do believe that jokes pulled after noon turn the prankster into the ‘fool’. Instead, we’d like to share a few famous insights into learning how to live wisely.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: freedom happiness laughter learning life peace wisdom

Depression: Nature & Laughter

Thursday Jan 31 2008

By Stu Whitley | Bio

Another balm to the damaged soul lies outdoors. The natural world, with its fixed cycles of life, degeneration and recuperation, is a soothing reminder that all passes eventually. There’s a harsher truth as well: the world is indifferent. It is neither fair nor unfair; it simply is. Outdoors, if one is careless, disaster can easily happen. Rushing streams and precipitous inclines may be beautiful to contemplate, but they are neutral on the issue of your vanity or self-indulgence. Yet taking ourselves closer to our natural beginnings is a healing first step toward self-rediscovery.

[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning
Join discussion COMMENTS [1]

Tagged with: depression laughter nature success

Resisting Love

Wednesday Jun 20 2007

By Shae Hadden
Bio

Resistance causes persistence.
You get what you resist.
Practice non-resistance.

All these axioms seem appropriate when speaking of violence, acts of aggression, conflict, long-standing issues of hate and fear. But why would we resist the 'good' things in life like friendship, support, trust, attraction and love?[Read More]

Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment
Join discussion COMMENTS [0]

Tagged with: denial laughter letting-go love resistance

Laughter

Friday Feb 16 2007

I notice I am getting more ‘age’ jokes in my email these days. Most of them are kind of silly: they’re either about leaky parts or real or imagined sexual fantasies among octogenarians (watching or wishing in all sorts of unusual circumstances, like learning to bounce your walker on a trampoline so you can peak at the nude beauty in the next yard). Like most humor, it is about people laughing at themselves or their situation. I don’t find most of them particularly funny, probably because while I am now officially a ‘senior citizen’, I don’t yet identify with the core realities that are being spoofed. While I don’t mind this attempt to ‘laugh it up’ in the nursing home set and I don’t think this kind of levity is ageist, it does reflect our expectations and our fears of what we are in for as we grow older.

[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
Join discussion COMMENTS [1]

Tagged with: ageism game joke laughter