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The Fourth Way of Aging

We may not yet have found any palatable alternatives to growing old, but we have many choices regarding how we will age. The three most obvious options are to revile aging, deny it or romanticize it. Those who invest increasing amounts of effort to game the future, maintain the status

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Blog for Today

Today, may I remember that … The quality of my relationships is not measured by the amount of time we spend together but the abundance of love I carry for you in my heart. Having fun, wasting time and being silly are as much a part of being whole as

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The Inconvenient Bits

Today’s blog is not news to you. You are not who you used to be. You thought your persona would go the distance, but it’s already cracking. And if that weren’t unsettling enough, who are these poor neglected souls tumbling out through the fissures? You know the ones I’m talking about—the

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Cause for Hope

These are dark times—and yet, there is cause for hope.  In the most optimistic reading of our times, the shadows within which we huddle represent the end of an era and the clearing away of the outlived old for something new and unexpected. But this understanding requires a greater grasp

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Serenity is Overrated

My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here… Let’s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings, But please, let’s not be so shocked by them. — Jennifer Welwood   What the world needs now, more than ever, is more consciousness—of large things previously

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This isn’t the funnest part of conscious aging…

The day long after you’ve accepted your changing appearance, you look in the mirror and catch yourself wincing. The day you believe you love unconditionally and then your loved ones don’t do what you want. The day you’ve made peace with mortality and the doctor calls you to his office

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Cause for Celebration

In a moment, a question for you. A big one. But first, something you know well. It’s an old person, in this case a woman, who has somehow found her way onto a morning show where she is being celebrated for a major accomplishment. She is wearing an orchid as

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A Most Inconvenient Hour for Awakening

In the pitch black of the early hours when most would rather still be sleeping, I stubbed my toe on my authentic self. I shouldn’t have been surprised, given that it’s been smack dab in the center of my room since before I was born and I thought I knew

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Hitting the Limit of the Human Potential

Our generation has often spoken of the imperative to fulfill one’s human potential.  In my understanding, this potential is not limited to the thin slice of the spectrum we tend to think of as happiness.  To be fully alive, we must avail ourselves of the entire range including bittersweet sorrow,

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The Age of Knowing Things

What is the evolutionary purpose of aging? At 74, I have the answer. It’s because it takes so dang many years to finally get past the illusions, coping strategies and masks we once hoped would guarantee us safe passage to instead live life to the full. In the end, aging

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