modern elder

Steven replied, “If we’re lucky, we’ll all get older, but only a few of us will become a true elder.”

We live in a time and society in which we warehouse wisdom in nursing homes and retirement communities. We’ve lost

James Hollis is one of those modern elders. I’ve followed his writing for decades and love how he’s elevated and

The old word for having a foot in each world is ‘weird.’ The original sense of weird involved both fate

“Incredulous.” I heard that word three times last week when it’s rare to hear it three times in a year.

Babies and older adults share several similarities in consciousness, particularly in terms of how they experience the world including:Present-Moment Awareness:

Our well-being depends upon our aging psycho-hygiene, how we cleanse ourselves of mindsets and belief systems that rob us of

One of my favorite parts of the white paper about the Emerging Elder that I’ve cited this week is the

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

Midlife can be broken down into three phases: early midlife (35-50) which is often the challenging Sandwich Generation period, core