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Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.
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Digest #1: Fierce with Age Launches Today– We are dedicated to bringing you the best content on spirituality and aging for Boomers from around the web. Subscribers will receive the free Digest in their in-box every two weeks with periodic messages from founder/editor-in-chief Carol Orsborn, Ph.D. There will also be daily updates for you to […]
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Sept/2018 Hello Fierce Ones, We conclude our summer of classics with a special edition, featuring conscious aging thought leaders who will be presenting at The Sage-ing International 2018 Global Conference, of which Fierce with Age is proud to be a partner.What a joy to anticipate the company of like-minded seekers from around the world in […]
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Hello Fierce Ones, This blog features excerpts from March’s Sage-ing Book Club selection: Nan Narboe’s Aging—An Apprenticeship. Comprised of personal essays about aging, Narboe provides us with a front row seat to Ellen Gilchrist, Judy Blume, Frederick Buechner, Ram Dass, Gloria Steinem and 50 other writers coming to terms with the inevitability of imperfection, the […]
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2/6/2018 “Plummet into aging, stare mortality in the eye, surrender everything and what else is there left to fear? The way is perilous, danger on all sides. But we are no longer a generation afraid of age. We are becoming, instead, a generation fierce with age.” […]
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What is age to those of us living it? Having crossed the threshold into my seventies, I am filled with equal portions of wonder and dread. The young cannot possibly fathom what it means to live with one’s cheek pressed hard against the shadows. Earlier in our lives, we had expected either to continue on […]
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Aging cedes territory on a daily basis. Every day we are somewhat weaker, somewhat slower, somewhat less connected. The only thing that comprises “more” for us is the effort it now takes to try to maintain what came to us so effortlessly just moments ago. The slippage is often so slow and slight, we become […]
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Sometimes I am grateful for all the years of my life, believing that they have grown me strong. Other times, I wear them as gravity, weighing me down: everything sinking. On these days, upon awakening, I can feel I haven’t rested enough. Even without a mirror nearby, I can sense it: perhaps not as a […]
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Our generation did everything in our power to gain control over our circumstances, individual as well as societal. Is this true of every generation? If so, the old have been, are and will always be doomed to failure. But failure, as it turns out, can provide rich ground for surprises. I am freshly exposed at […]
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When I was young, my sails often filled with air. Even now, some days are effortless as I race across the surface of the hours overflowing with more life than I know what to do with. Other days, I pull at the ropes hoping to catch just enough wind to keep moving forward: just engaged, […]
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I went to the neighborhood senior center for my usual work out. I am continually amazed both that I am old enough to be allowed into such a place—and humbled by how much better the eighty-year-olds can be than me at reaching the floor with their palms and balancing on one leg. But today when […]
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“Once again, Carol Orsborn stirs the reader to reflect upon aging as an opportunity for depth and expansion, and week by week to experience that which abides through life’s changes.”
James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
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