 By Shae Hadden | Bio
Spring flowers bloom passionately on the
sunny West Coast day, birds are preparing nests for their young and
people run madly by me as I sit by the ocean and ponder what it takes
to survive in these times. My search for a place to live has not yet
been entirely successful, and the conversations I’ve had reveal both
desperation and gnawing hesitation in myself and others to actually put
a stake in the ground—metaphorically speaking—and declare that this is
the future we are committing to. It’s almost as if[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
My lovely wife has spent her day
today moving my mother-in-law from Calgary to Edmonton. This is the
fifth time my wife has moved her mother in the past five years. She is
not complaining: it remains just a fact. Her mother has downsized from
a home to an apartment, relocated from British Columbia, Canada to our
home in Edmonton, moved back to a seniors apartment, and then to her first
experience in an assisted living complex in Calgary last August. Now,
just nine months later, she is moving once again to an assisted living
complex, but back in Edmonton. Regardless of the reasons behind all
these moves, I am continually amazed at how flexible, adaptable,
and welcoming of change my 91-year-old mother-in-law is. Her
willingness[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I have had several conversations with friends
in Buenos Aires about how people deal with their financial security in
their older years. To my surprise, the uniform answer is that they
mostly don’t. Then I hear a story which, by my naïve North American
standards is shocking, but whhich reveals something important for all
of us as we contemplate our own future and worry about the
uncertainties in the financial markets. The story goes like this.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Retirement
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
Well, here we are, another Christmas Day,
almost another year gone by and people everywhere are at home or, if
not, are hopefully getting ‘something special’. I am saying a special
‘thanks’ to all those people who are working today so the rest of us
can relax and do whatever it is we’re doing on Christmas day—the
soldiers, the firemen, the police, the health care workers and even
lots of people in the hospitality and transportation industries. I woke up today thinking about[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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By Don Arnoudse
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My
20 year-old daughter, Sara, was in full voice, speaking rapidly with
both tension and inspiration. “Dad, there are so many things I want to
do. I’m going to Spain in the fall, but I wish I were staying on campus
[at the University of New Hampshire] so I can meet the presidential
candidates before the primary. I don’t know at all where I’m going to
live next spring. This summer, I’m interested in an internship in
Washington, DC, but people tell me it’s a great time to be on campus.
There’s another overnight leadership workshop next weekend, but I’m
just not sure if I want to go again. I might want to take an extra
semester before I graduate because there are so many courses I want to
take and I’m running out of time. I feel like I should get a job and
make some money, but I’m not sure how I would fit it all in. Everything
is just so up in the air!”[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Personal Empowerment
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