Category Archives: Aging

What if our purpose in life were fulfilled long before we died, and our last 10 years came after? Last 30 years or 60? How would we live our later years? Would that purpose and event inform and infuse the … Continue reading →

How are there fewer answers than we thought? :- Doug.

How have your perspectives and attitudes changed over life? :- Doug.

It’s not a matter of developing our wisdom, but opening to allow it out to play. :- Doug.

I don’t know what later times of aging will be for me. I only know what it is now. I am savoring slowness, reflection, and connection. I am turning to opening to what may come. :- Doug.

Life is not what we make of it but what we give to it, in the little moments. Sitting here reflecting, writing for someone who may never see it, is more important than all the urgent things on my to … Continue reading →

What’s the important stuff of life? :- Doug.

What is your life about, now? What has it been about through the years? :- Doug.

How often—and when—do you feel the desire for solitude? :- Doug.

What does growing older mean to you? What are its positive sides? How are you growing, changing? :- Doug.

What adventures have you had? What do they say about you? :- Doug.

What did you dream last night? What all do you recall of your dream? What might it mean? :- Doug.

We need exemplars of what it means to age well. To be an elder for sure is to slow down, take a longer view, put the puzzling picture together. Health and mind may fail, but of that there is no … Continue reading →

Exercise: write about something physical you did today. :- Doug.