Wisdom on Aging Posts

    "When a trumpet blows, listen!  Isaiah  18:3Most of the time, I don't think about getting older.  As long as I feel well and am doing some thing interesting, I am content to be my age.  Sometimes, however, as I bumble blissfully along, out of the blue there is a reminder.  At a recent trip to a beauty salon for a perm, the stylist asked the question:"Do ...

"Work as if everything depends on you, pray as if everything depends on God."   St. Augustine   So much of the work that we do goes unnoticed or is taken for granted, even by ourselves.  Most of us just go on doing what needs to be done on automatic pilot.  It is either our job for which a wage is paid, or in our homes to keep the family functioning or the house and its ...

 "The times they are a-changin"   Bob Dylan   Things change.  What an understatement!  There are changes in in-significant things daily, like no longer being able to find the same peanut butter that has been available for years.  Newspapers are out of fashion, replaced, like many things, by the computer, which has become a way of life.  It has reinvented c...

"There is no light without shadow and no Psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but for completeness."   Carl Jung  The question is:  do people change as they get older or has what they become always been inside them, dormant, waiting to emerge, or re-emerge?  A theory is that the character settled into with aging has al...

        "The past is not dead, it is not even past"  Wm Faulkner  We hear a lot about the past and how to deal with it.  A few common observations are:                         The past is always with us.      &n...

"So much more now, my life is happening to me rather than I am trying     to make it happen"  Ram Dass from "The Only Dance There Is" Years ago I left the religion that I had practiced for 35 years, and began a search for what was missing.  This was in the early 1970s (the New Age) so the choices were abundant.  I became aware of a Transcendental Meditation class, s...

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."  Swedish proverb At some juncture as we age the question "What's the point?" will probably arise.  Change is inevitable.  Retirement from a career in which we yielded some power and control, children raised and moved on, spouse gone, friends no longer in touch, age-related health issues are all factors that make us feel un-want...