I read an article recently describing what can only be described as a ‘feeding frenzy’ over the name and legacy of Nelson Mandela—one of the great leaders of our generation. This isn’t different from the kind of greedy infighting between family, friends and constituents that happens far too often when patriarchs become unable to manage their own affairs or
By Jim Selman | BioThere are two kinds of break-ups. The
‘soft’ breakup is where both parties in a relationship more or less
stay in communication and talk about their differences, their
discontent or their changing needs until they arrive at a conclusion
that “This just isn’t working” and agree to go their separate ways.
Sometimes they remain friends. In any case, this kind of mature and
honest ending allows both parties to let go of past expectations or
disappointments, eventually reach some degree of ‘completion’ with the
romance and move on with their lives. The ‘hard’ breakup is when[Read More]
Regardless of what life presents,
this Love moves with grace through
time and space,
disclosing through thoughts and
Being
the essence of what is
and who we really are,
embracing it all
wholeheartedly with acceptance and
Joy
The boundaries of Love are undefined,
limitless,
unconstrained,
non-existent
By Jim Selman | BioThere 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]
Enjoy this video, and consider submitting one of your own to the project. Starbucks makes a contribution to AIDS projects in Africa for each video submitted.
By Stuart J. Whitley | BioI had lunch with an old friend, a Tlingit elder, Harold, today.
I’ve known Harold for nearly a dozen years. And I know him to be a
serious, thoughtful man; he’s someone who has taught me many things,
not the least of which was the powerful consequence of even the
smallest positive intervention in someone’s life. I have seen it in action: Harold is the embodiment of Emerson’s dictum that[Read More]
By Jim Selman | BioThe following
thoughts were shared by a friend of mine on the question of what it is
like to ‘be’ older and wiser. I think they express something we can all
learn from if we haven’t already. "What’s it like to 'be' my age? Besides the obvious physical changes, there is a kind of[Read More]
The Pope's Love in Truth, his third letter to the bishops of the world, is written in the context of the current global economic crisis. The
Pope views the current crisis as an opportunity for us to discern and
to create a new vision for our future. In his latest encyclical, he
doesn't focus on specific systems of economics or reconstructing the
global economy. Instead, he reminds us that our markets are shaped by
our culture, and that it is up to us to focus on the common good and
reconstruct our societies and cultures based on 'love of truth', rather
than 'crude materialism'.
"Economy and finance . . . can be used badly when those at the helm are
motivated by purely selfish ends. Instruments that are good in
themselves can thereby be transformed into harmful ones. But it is
man's darkened reason that produces these consequences, not the
instrument per se. Therefore it is not the instrument that
must be called to account, but individuals, their moral conscience and
their personal and social responsibility."
By Kevin Brown | BioLike
me, you can probably remember a relationship you had as a child with an
elderly relative or friend of the family. Some of my best memories of
such a time involve Mrs. Cowling, an elderly lady who lived next door
to us. We had just moved to a new neighborhood in Calgary, and there
were only two completed homes on the block. Our home had the only
family of children for about three blocks. There was my older sister
Paulette (13 years old), myself (7) , and my brand new brother Ken who
was not yet one. Mrs. Cowling was in her eighties[Read More]
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