Category Archives: Aging

Growing older is growing. :- Doug.

All these changes, many at once, are disorienting. We move our heads back and forth, we squint, we say “What did she say?” We have to work assiduously to gather the larger contours our aging calls us to seek. :- … Continue reading →

In age, sometimes occurs nonconventional awareness. :- Doug.

Some are becoming old in a new way. :- Doug.

Learners, teachers, explorers, volunteers: why are you doing these larger things? Are you larger in your accumulating years? :- Doug.

Some want to learn, to attend symphony (experience beauty, evoke beauty), volunteer for something meaningful for them (be larger, mist-ify). :- Doug.

These years—more than play? :- Doug.

Who am I and what am I about, now that I’m older? :- Doug.

What is newfound in old age? :- Doug.

Is there value in old age? :- Doug.

The new old :- Doug.

Senior citizen, older adult, elderly, aged, elder, old fart: which would you like to be? :- Doug.

Gracefully old :- Doug.