Category Archives: Aging
Don’t be the ideal elder
Don’t be the ideal elder, take a step toward your elderhood. :- Doug.
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extend or grow?
Shall we extend our middling years, or grow ahead? :- Doug.
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The great discomforts of aging
The great discomforts of aging in our culture are not what you might expect. Rather elders are being cast aside, not honored nor even seen, told to concentrate on what is failing and being taken away and never on what … Continue reading
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Elder or middler
Elder or middler? Many want to push older people to become just older middlers. Is that good for elders, for our society? :- Doug.
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It pays to get old
It pays to get old—it pays others more than us. If we choose. :- Doug.
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60 and better
If we’re 60 and better, what’s better? :- Doug.
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Eternal middle age
We love pictures of elders doing things we do—say, golfing and sky diving—largely because it helps us stave off our fear of aging. Yet there is at least a third way beyond eternal middle age and falling apart: vital nurturing … Continue reading
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Inventing aging
Our generation has an opportunity to begin inventing aging. :- Doug.
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What could it mean?
We’re getting older: what could we choose to have that mean for our species? :- Doug.
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Might not mean
Allow that in age activity and socialization might not mean what it did in our middle years. :- Doug.
Elderhood: every life worth living
Elderhood: every life worth living. :- Doug.
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Alive inside?
Alive inside? Alive all sides! :- Doug.
Now that I’m old
Oh poor me! People ignore me now that I’m old. Poppycock! Let you hear them! Make yourself matter still! :- Doug.
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Mom and Dad and spouse have died
Mom and Dad and spouse have died there is no old homestead to which to return we can make our home here if we choose among this people :- Doug.
If you cannot sleep
If you cannot sleep Then may your dusk and dawn be of life productive! :- Doug.
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warehouses to hotbeds
Let’s move retirement facilities from being warehouses to hotbeds of meaning and purpose. :- Doug.