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Tuesday Feb 26 2008 We've all heard that exercise is good for the body. Now current research is demonstrating that an active lifestyle contributes positively to the functioning of our brains as we grow older. Waneen Spirduso's book Exercise and Its Mediating Effects on Cognition outlines
the latest perspectives from 17 internationally recognized experts on
aging, exercise, cognition and
neurobiological processes. Our sleep quality, immune system, levels
of anxiety and depression are all influenced by exercise and physical activity. These affect the physical and mental
resources we have available for cognition. Exercise actually promotes the growth of new brain cells in the part of the brain thought to be responsible for learning and memory. Aerobic exercise, in particular, increases bloodflow to our brains, which allows them to function more effectively. The good news: benefits start with as little as 20 minutes of walking a day. [Read More]
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Thursday Sep 20 2007  Memory is an interesting and strange phenomenon. I think (as most of us
do) that what I remember is more or less what happened. This came home
to me a number of years ago when I was dating a woman I had dated
twenty years previously and whom I had not seen in the intervening
period. We ‘connected’ like old friends and more or less fell into the
kind of comfortable conversation that old friends do. As we began to
recall our earlier relationship (which was pretty intense and lasted
for more than a year), our stories diverged immensely. I have always prided myself on my memory. Other than occasional
journaling and this blog, I have not spent a lot of time writing down
my thoughts or experiences. Now I wish I had kept a diary just for the
interest value it might have when comparing the written record with my
recollections.[Read More]
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Monday Jul 16 2007  By Stu Whitley Bio This post is the fourth in a four-part series. It may be that memory is the Well of Wisdom: this idea is central to Celtic mythology. In Celtic lore, the well is situated at the centre of the Otherworld, the spiritual source, the land of the dead. Where it gushes up, pilgrims drink from it using a skull as a vessel, thereby creating a direct link with the dead. At the well of Llandeilo in Dyfed, Wales, this practice continued into the twentieth century. The skull was said to be that of St. Teilo, the ruins of whose church loomed over the well itself.[Read More]
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Monday Jul 09 2007 By Stu WhitleyBio This is the third post in a four-part series. What may be demonstrated as a biological truth is intuitively understood as we grow older. We become less egocentric, more aware that the world has many centres of the universe besides our own, and that in some mysterious way, these centres are all linked. In the mature adult, we recognize as poets have before us, that we are round people on a round earth, cognizant of being interwoven in a circular web of connection with all human beings, which is among other things to understand interdependency, forgiveness and the nature of healing. Hugo wrote: “We are never done with conscience. Choose your course by it…it is bottomless, being God.” And what is conscience if not memory? Memory, that is, linked to consequences. No one can divine the future with any exactitude. Yet we are capable of discerning the truths that help guide us to it; I believe that those truths are at least in part found in our collective memory.[Read More]
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Monday Jul 02 2007 By Stu Whitley Bio This is the second post in a four-part series. Poetry is sometimes the casualty of an age where rational clarity is considered supreme. If the message of the poet is not apparent at the first go, chuck the damn thing. This, of course, ignores the obvious reality that to try and capture all that reposes within our innermost thoughts on a particular matter may not be easily condensed and dispensed as received wisdom. I think our ability to speak clearly on important things is seriously exaggerated. Kant observed that there’s no great art in being generally comprehensible if one renounces insight. He thought that the result was a bunch of patched up observations and half-reasoned principles, which he considered to be the enjoyment of “shallowpates” in “everyday chitchat”. Jacques Maritain wrote in Creative Intuition in Art & Poetry: The law of intelligible clarity imposed by the classical tradition has…been an occasion for innumerable mediocre poems… [Read More]
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Monday Jun 25 2007 By Stu Whitley Bio I’ve been thinking lately about the poetry I write; the poetry I write for you what always needs reinforcing; love cannot survive unilaterally [Read More]
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Sunday May 27 2007 
In loving memory of my mother, Ruth Selman (1920-2007), who passed away this morning at 11:20 am.I am distracted by thoughts of dying, My actions blown away on wasted winds of imagination and thoughts I cannot think or speak.
I celebrate tomorrow and yearn for yesterdays, The weakness of a restless soul longing for realities unlived and lost forever in the desert of forgotten dreams.
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Written by Jim Selman at Fearless Aging
Monday Mar 26 2007 By Stu Whitley Bio This is the second in a four-part series. There is no country more tragically concerned with war, oppression and the visitation of death than Poland. This is saying something for a continent riven by ethnic and political conflict for millennia. It is my impression that war—and in particular, the Second World War—casts a long shadow there, for the occupation by the Soviet Union that followed for nearly half a century afterward had its bitter roots in that conflict. The scars are yet there, literally. In the large block in Lublin where my father lived as a boy, a line of machine gun bullets fired 67 years ago is neatly stitched across the stone façade.[Read More]
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Monday Feb 19 2007 By Stu Whitley Bio It is inevitable that the pressures of the past that are felt by the present have to be contained in some sort of manageable context. Life must be worth living. Gazing upward to the crumbling decks of those forlorn leviathans from my canoe on the Yukon River, I wondered about the men who worked those paddlewheel steamers. Back-breaking work it must have been to feed those enormous furnaces. Even the ship’s wheel needed to be six feet across to achieve the mechanical advantage necessary to turn the fat twin rudders under the paddlewheel. It must have required Herculean effort to avoid the snags and bars of the Yukon River. Did these men too end their hard lives as empty relics, used up, discarded on the strand as life’s indifferent perpetual current continued to flow by?[Read More]
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