Reaching in, Reaching out
This morning, while reading this simple sentence: “One civilization arises, flourishes, and falls, and another takes its place.” (Caring, Page 191), I realized that...
Category: Timely Aging
Experts and Amateurs
This morning, I decided to trust my own judgement over some ‘expert’ advice I have been following for more than half a year. The...
Another Dawning
This morning, I skimmed through my journal entries since late November last year. I was looking for something that could start me on a...
Making Good Use of Time
There’s a saying that seems to be born out in experience: “If you want something done, give it to a busy person”. The reason...
My Life as a Fable (in 723 words)
In the beginning, I was helpless. Or so I assume, since babies I have observed, including the ones that I helped bring into this...
The Ebb and Flow of Memory
This morning, like a migrating bird landing on a branch and immediately taking off again, a fragment of memory came back. It was from...
Balancing on a Slowly Sinking Fulcrum
I expect that the tug-of-war I often feel—between inner and outer calls for me to be involved in something—is a common one. There is...
Leaning in our Direction
In spite of our practical certainty that the world we live in exists independently of our perceptions of it, it seems likely that what...
Sorry that my Thank You card is late
From my journal entry of 8/18/17: “My mother would have been 99 today”. Perhaps that thought set me to imagining myself talking with people...
What Survives?
Mindfulness must be a wonderful quality to be able to call upon at will. In my experience, it seems that being aware of my...