Category Archives: Aging
“You might be just an old middler if you….”
“You might be just an old middler if you….” :- Doug.
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Teacher?
Think of a person from your life. What did that person teach you? :- Doug.
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Old photos
Look at old photos, tell a story they trigger, sing some old songs which come to mind. :- Doug.
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Recall….
Recall a time when you expressed passion and vision. :- Doug.
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grace in being cared for
A giving in receiving grace in being cared for: our presence softly :- Doug.
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Did not earlier?
What we we understand we did not earlier? :- Doug.
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What does retirement mean?
What does the idea of retirement represent for you? Freedom? Travel? Play? Doing your real living? Doing your real reason for being here? Concentrating on grandchildren? On your mission? A second career? :- Doug.
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Higher calling
There is a higher calling in being an elder than just being older. It is a threshold to be crossed or not: a value to be added to the world. :- Doug.
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To give it power
To give it power Focus on your dis-ease :- Doug.
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Is age simply
Is age simply a waiting to die? Is retirement for playing all day? Or maybe for non-doing something? :- Doug.
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Aches of aging are spiritual
For some of us aches of aging are spiritual for some of us grieving and loss are exercises a chance to do this work for all of us :- Doug.
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Mistake to call us “older adults”
Don’t make the mistake of calling us “older adults” for we are more than adults grown older: we are in a different development of life—psychologically, and for some of us, spiritually. :- Doug.
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LIve as long as possible
Live as long as possible Live as much as possible The first saps from you The second demands your soul’s full exertion :- Doug.
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young-old and old-old
There are the young-old and the old-old; those who have elected to cross the threshold are elders and sages respectively. Some old-old are merely suffering from disease and falling apart; sages have the same conditions as a sidelight, or even … Continue reading
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