“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of […]
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Excerpt from John Robinson’s new book Resilience: Aging with Vision, Hope and Courage in a Time of Crisis. In Regards to Mystical Activism: To What Are You Being Called Climate warrior defending Creation against the continuing assault of development, pollution, and exploitation through social protest and civil disobedience. Citizen Lobbyist pressuring local, state and national […]
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The March Selection of the Sage-ing Book Club, previewed below, will be Nan Narboe’s Aging—An Apprenticeship. The 2017 classic provides us with a front row seat to essays about aging by Ellen Gilchrist, Judy Blume, Frederick Buechner, Ram Dass, Gloria Steinem and 50 other writers coming to terms with the inevitability of imperfection, the wrestle […]
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Getting lost in your emotional reactivity isn’t where you want to be. –Ram Dass I want to apologize, right off the bat, for all those years and years of lunches, phone conversations and long walks in parks together in which I complained endlessly about my mother. When she passed, my bouncing ball of litanies, mostly […]
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Ask me about the meaning of life, and I’ll have tons to say. Ask me if I’ve come to terms with mortality, and you’ll get a thoughtful answer complete with sub-texts. But the other day, someone asked me something that left me speechless. “Are you happy?” I wish I could respond as quickly and affirmatively […]
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Thanksgiving week: turkey in a bubble, loved ones on Zoom and despite hope for the future, still having to turn the news off most of the time. And yet, there is so much to be grateful for. Of course, there are friends and family, a roof over our heads and all the doctors, nurses and […]
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Ten years ago, at the age of 63 when I was fraught with the challenges of growing old in our ageist, dysfunctional society, I vowed to transform myself from victim to explorer. I viewed the far side of midlife as wild territory, full of dangerous unknowns, and saw that my mission as an adult development […]
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Hello Fierce Ones, Fall is seriously underway—the cycle of seasons providing a natural opportunity for introspection. For those of us who value turning inward, we find inspiration in what Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” But at our age and stage in life, it is also important to keep in mind […]
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Hello Fierce Ones, I’m pleased to announce the next selection of the Conscious Aging Book Club: The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister. The discussion board opens today in the comment section below and culminates September 6 both online and in-person at 10:30 a.m., Parnassus Books, Nashville. This will give you plenty […]
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Hello Fierce Ones, I’m pleased to announce the next selection of the Conscious Aging Book Club: The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life’s Greatest Mystery by Sara Davidson. My blog inspired by the book follows. The discussion board opens today in the comment section below and culminates August 2 both […]
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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.”
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