Conscious Ageing – the grand adventure?
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Jan 29 2009
If you know – there is nothing to say. Obviously – I don’t know. So I talk. Not to lecture anyone, or to say something so true and wise that the hearer cannot otherwise help but gain from it. As I’ve said, there is nothing to say.
Jan 27 2009
My web-site has raised questions, not only in some of my readers’ minds but in my own, about my relationship with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, now known as Osho. This is the first time I have attempted to write down my reasons for leaving his organisation and using my legal name, instead of the spiritual one given to me in 1975 – veet asmi.
Jan 25 2009
So many loving, inspired, touching, hopeful words are being spoken and written about the new President of the United States. AND, he is only human! So much is being placed on his comparatively young shoulders. I want to say – step back and give him a breather! Too high an expectation can end in disillusion.
Jan 25 2009
That was until today. I remember listening to the Rev. Martin Luther King make his famous “I have a dream” speech. In his dream he made the claim that he had seen the “Promised Land.” I was raised in a racist America and never believed that I would see a black man elected as President during my lifetime. It was as recent as the mid 70s that my wife (Vietnamese) and I (a white man) were refused a hotel room in rural Mississippi because of her race.
Jan 23 2009
For those of you who have read this post, AND those who haven’t, there is a moving addition to it: A song called Salaam Shalom, written by a talented friend of mine called Lynn Holland – it’s really worth a listen. it is a song written by a mature woman who has lived a lot.
Jan 21 2009
If you are, I would love to hear from you. From now on I shall be searching for articles that might be of interest to readers on this site. The ‘Conversations’ section is, hopefully, for in-depth writing and response, rather than the brief messages that appear on Facebook, Twitter and such-like. I would like it [...]
Jan 21 2009
These came to me today, made me smile – and then laugh outright! Some of you may have heard of the Indigo children, the clear, wise ones who, it is said, have been being born over the last years. Maybe the new President is one of the first adults! Who knows, but when I read a description of these children – see: http://www.innerself.com/Parenting/indigo_children.htm – I do wonder!
THE BABIES KNOW…
Jan 20 2009
It was not a street that you would write about. To say it was not a life you would write about seems overdoing it, but true to me.
The street was as familiar and as strange as all those terraces of identical doors and windows seem to outsiders. In fact they were not identical at all. Shades of green and brown and the occasional excitement of a still restrained red, to emphasize, my door, my house, my home, my family…..keep out!
Jan 20 2009
I think there are enough beings out there who are pushing around words like conscious ageing, elders, wisdom, eldering, etc to offer the audience a thought to make it feel better about their condition. I think its a disgraceful approach. It starts with the depressing commentary: how old are you? instead of the romance language commentary: how many years have you completed? It instills a powerful feeling of accomplishment. I know this for myself. In fact, when I am asked the former, my reply is: I will have completed 83 years in April.
Jan 19 2009
What has been happening in Israel and Gaza has gripped our attention, whether we want it to or not. Sending out mass appeals is usually not my ‘thing’. However, the synchronicity of an imminent newsletter mailing and the enclosed link arriving in my mail this morning spoke loudly to me.