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My mother, with whom I have always had a troubled and difficult bond, recently texted out of the blue asking if she could ask my 26-year-old son, who works for Adobe, to connect with a client of hers (she’s an employment lawyer). Hoping that Miles could provide a lead to a job for her client, ...
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My mother, with whom I have always had a troubled and difficult bond, recently texted out of the blue asking if she could ask my 26-year-old son, who works for
When I listened to Tuesday’s NY Times Daily Show podcast on Could the L.A. Fires Have Been Stopped Sooner?, I realized there are people in our modern elder community who
Babies and older adults share several similarities in consciousness, particularly in terms of how they experience the world including:Present-Moment Awareness: Healthy babies and old elders live in the now. Curiosity
You don’t know your limits until you’ve exceeded them. I’ve learned that as an entrepreneur who flirted with bankruptcy, as a blogger sharing my very personal revelations that some in
Wisdom whispers of our smallness, dissolving the walls of the self. Love sings of our boundless essence, uniting us with all that is. Wisdom unveils the fleeting nature of form,
Context impacts your vision. Sonny Bono was Cher’s short husband and he had a hard time shaking that identity when he became a U.S. Member of Congress. I’m not sure
You can learn a magic trick, but you can’t will Serendipity. Five years ago, I wrote a blog post in the form of a fable about three sisters: Serendipity, Synchronicity,
I cherish the month of January because after years on this planet it’s become written in my DNA—while September feels like a fresh start after years of schooling (mine and
Our well-being depends upon our aging psycho-hygiene, how we cleanse ourselves of mindsets and belief systems that rob us of joy, discovery, and possibility during this unique period of our
One of my favorite parts of the white paper about the Emerging Elder that I’ve cited this week is the stories the academics present. Here are a couple of stories
I was made to understand Aging would be the death of me.Sad, lonely, invisible,No one offers me sympathy.Mind a porous colander,Wandering haunted neighborhoods.Getting old ain’t for sissies,I’ll be fully misunderstood.But autumn
Midlife can be broken down into three phases: early midlife (35-50) which is often the challenging Sandwich Generation period, core midlife (50-60) when you’re joyously emerging from your “midlife chrysalis,”
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