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Reconnecting Generations

Tuesday Jun 01 2010

This blog post is reprinted with the kind permission of Grace Lee Boggs. It was originally published in the Living for Change Newsletter, published by the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit.

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that the human race can only continue to evolve if we overcome the age segregation that has contributed so much to our dehumanization over the last few decades.

When I was an undergraduate in the early 1930s, I heard Ira D. Reid speak at a weekend college conference and learned truths about the African American experience which I felt had been kept from me.  At the time I was in my teens. So Dr. Reid (1901-1968), who was in his 30s and director of research for the Urban League, seemed much older and wiser than I would ever be. 

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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: elders generations grace_lee_boggs hope intergenerational_conversation reconnecting wisdom young_people

Wisdom 101: A matter of time

Tuesday Apr 20 2010

By Jim Selman | Bio
The older I am, the more I reflect on the aphorisms all around us and wonder why it is so difficult to accept and live with this obvious wisdom. Robert Fulghum memorialized many of them in his bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. All of these little ‘nuggets’ of wisdom we’ve accumulated over the years are generally, well, wise. It is befuddling why so few people take them to heart. Why do so many spend a lifetime learning these kinds of lessons the hard way?[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: aphorisms choice elders experience learning life_lessons pavlov's_dog robert_fulghum wisdom

7 Reasons Why Elders Make Great Lovers (and have better sex)

Tuesday Feb 02 2010

   By Jim Selman | Bio
There 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]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: aging being conversation development ecstasy elders feeling giving growing intergenerational judgement love lovers older patience pavlina personal present receiving relationships satisfaction sex sexual-satisfaction steve wisdom

A Taste of One’s Quality: 3 Rules for Good Temperament (Part 2)

Friday Dec 18 2009

By Stuart James Whitley | Bio

Continuing on from yesterday's post....

2. Be patient
As the Biblical injunction provides, all things good come to those who wait. This precondition for good temperament has two elements to it: time and wisdom. Part of wisdom is the understanding that active listening is a form of generosity, a key element in a mature temperament. Waiting for the other point of view, the various possible perspectives, or even the depletion of emotion, takes discipline.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: intuition justice listening pascal responsibility time wisdom

Wolf's Theorem: Show Up, Work Hard, Let Go

Thursday Nov 12 2009

   By Stuart J. Whitley | Bio
I’ve been writing about the ethic of aging, which is an internal imperative obligating the transmission of values, ethics and wisdom from one generation to another. Usually, this is a phenomenon that occurs unconsciously, in a way nearly invisible against the tapestry of quotidian life. But now and then, it’s rendered explicit, often in surprisingly casual ways. An old friend Wolf and I were in[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: aging ethics generation good_living rules success wisdom

Elders and the Environment

Tuesday Nov 10 2009

By Shae Hadden


I attended the David Suzuki Foundation's first Elders for the Environment Forum today in Vancouver, Canada. The event drew 200+ people, including Elder representatives from several First Nations and concerned 'older' citizens from Canada and the U.S. Following are some of the highlights from an inspiring talk given by Miles Richardson, former Grand Chief of the Haida Nation and a member of the board of directors of the David Suzuki Foundation.

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Written by eldering at News

Tagged with: david_suzuki_foundation elders_for_the_environment integrity respect wisdom

Giving Up 'Giving Up'

Friday Nov 06 2009

  By Jim Selman | Bio
My partner and I were recently enjoying one of those lazy weekend mornings just chatting about life in general when we got onto the subject of getting older and how we feel about it all. I made the point that my passion and The Eldering Institute® is about transforming our culture’s view of aging and teaching people that we can change how we relate to the future—and, as a consequence, we can have more choices, more possibility and more ‘aliveness’ than what most people can expect as they grow older. Moreover, I reasoned, once people are empowered as they age, they are free to contribute more, build partnerships with the young and make the difference they always wanted to make—to even take on the world’s intractable problems. [Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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Tagged with: aging choice eldering giving_up possibility transformation wisdom

Harold's Story - Part 3

Friday Oct 30 2009

By Stuart J. Whitley | Bio
I read somewhere that good decision-making—indeed, good relations—depends upon a virtuous cycle of respect, trust and candour (which takes some time to establish, but which can easily be interrupted). Attitude, after all, is everything. Perhaps that last statement needs a bit of refinement: the ethical attitude is everything. By that I mean the determination of the answer to the age-old question: who is right? Was Harold right to[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: age candour decision-making ethical_attitude experience judgement justice moral_choice respect trust wisdom

Positively Stinking Thinking

Monday Oct 19 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
Julia Baird has a nice piece in the September 25th issue of Newsweek called “Positively Downbeat”. She’s commenting on Americans’ obsession with being happy and the billions we spend to learn “the secret”. It’s all about quick and easy fixes for life’s dilemmas and the not-so-small industry of consultants, motivational speakers and authors that are standing in the wings to offer answers and potions. She rightly points to the grand daddy of all self-help offerings, “The Power of Positive Thinking” by Norman Vincent Peale and its latest incarnation “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne as archetypical examples of this genre.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: creative_thinking happiness positive_thinking reality the_secret truth wisdom

Wisdom

Wednesday Oct 07 2009

By Stuart Whitley | Bio
the man with the unpressed suit and upraised arms
speaking in monotone, knows exits and oxygen masks
the woman in the seat beside me moulds latex
into monsters’ heads for movies, and wonders
if she has time for a Harvey’s hamburger, loaded,
before her bags arrive on the carousel
do these people have wisdom?[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: poem wisdom

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