By Shae Hadden
A friend shared corporate poet David Whyte's recent article "A Fire Inside: Thoughts on the Creativity of Winter"
with me. David uses a brilliant metaphor to explore the trauma of loss
prevalent in the global economic crisis. He speaks of a a fire burning
inside a home on a winter's day as being like an "internal, alchemical,
almost catalytic core of identity-making and decision-making....the
soul of an individual" existing within the winter of our current
economic crises. Many can equate with [ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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By Shae Hadden | Bio
Spring
flowers bloom passionately on this sunny West Coast day, birds are
preparing nests for their young and people run madly by me as I sit by
the ocean and ponder what it takes to survive in these times. My search
for a place to live has not yet been entirely successful, and the
conversations I’ve had reveal both desperation and gnawing hesitation
in myself and others to actually put a stake in the
ground—metaphorically speaking—and declare that this is the future we
are committing to. It’s almost as if[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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 By Shae Hadden | Bio
It's
Thanksgiving in Canada, and I've just enjoyed a full weekend of
personal and work commitments. But the highlight of the weekend was a
chance to reconnect with the power of the 'nap'. Research in the past few years has found that the human body requires
as much sleep as the brain will allow it and that the brain needs a
rest every now and then. [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Health
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