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Friday Feb 05 2010 By Elizabeth Brown We’ve already experienced what works and doesn’t work for us regarding sex. And now we know it is about passion, trust and playfulness…[Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging Tagged with: elder health love pleasure satisfaction sex soul
Tuesday Aug 12 2008 By Irene Noble Admittedly my vision of my granddaughter is somewhat impaired by my love for her, but for the life of me I fail to understand how she became so wise so soon. We are both an only child, both raised by a single parent (a father for her, and a mother for me). We share a “jack of all trades” DNA. I watch her now as she, like my younger self, slightly out of focus, tries her wings. Like a hummingbird sampling nectars looking for the blossom with the most satisfying sugar, she fearlessly plunges into an array of interests that defy the time needed to perfect any one of them. I tell you this by way of introduction hoping to lead you into a greater subject. There she is at 23 with time to spare and here I am at 85 almost out of time. [Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: dream failure potential rejection serenity soul wisdom
Wednesday Jun 18 2008 Bill Plotkin's latest book, Nature and the Human Soul, offers a model for human development rooted in the natural world. Calling on the stories of elders Thomas Berry and Joanna Macy, Plotkin evokes a strong sense of a lack of maturity in a culture dominated by adolescent desires and habits. In this book, this pyschologist, ecotherapist and wilderness guide
defines eight stages of life--Innocent, Explorer, Thespian, Wanderer,
Soul Apprentice, Artisan, Master and Sage. Plotkin leads the reader to
the possibility of a society that is sustainable, cooperative and
compassionate through personal and collective evolution. His strategy
for living calls for our evolution into adulthood so that we mayachieve enduring societal change. A challenging read for elders of any age who are interested in a better world.
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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