Timely Aging Archives - MICHAEL GRAY

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...

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...

In the beginning, I was helpless. Or so I assume, since babies I have observed, including the ones that I helped bring into this...

This morning, like a migrating bird landing on a branch and immediately taking off again, a fragment of memory came back. It was from...

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...

In spite of our practical certainty that the world we live in exists independently of our perceptions of it, it seems likely that what...

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...

Mindfulness must be a wonderful quality to be able to call upon at will. In my experience, it seems that being aware of my...

ON SO MANY OF US TURNING 70 (A poetic salvo across the bow of time, by Kip Allen) We all act so bold. We...

Sometimes we turn down a new road, with little idea how momentous the consequences will be. Thank goodness that’s possible. “What we call ‘the...