Conscious Ageing – the grand adventure?
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Dec 29 2011
Thank you for the heads up but I have already committed my own and Ingrid’s name, not only to this particular crisis, but to almost everything since you first sent out an email, bringing my attention to the Avaaz Organisation. I’ve always seen myself as non-political, so it has come as a bit of a [...]
Oct 18 2011
Starting to write this, I am sitting in a beautiful, clear room with a view of the Alps in the distance, revelling in the quiet beauty all around me. I was invited to give a talk on Conscious Aging in Munich on 27th September. Blessedly this has included a visit to a close friend’s mountain [...]
Jul 29 2011
I could not let this issue go without some mention of the tragedy that unfolded in front of our eyes in Norway. It came in the form of this brilliant and poignant article, first published in the NYTimes: July 26, 2011. ’nuff said really. A FEW days ago, before the bombing here and the shootings [...]
Jul 29 2011
This article came to my notice recently. It highlights that, even in this so-called ‘advanced’ country, we can come up against fear and mistrust of so-called ‘ethnic minorities’. Here we have a Jewish Rabbi writing passionately about the plight of a Gypsy (Traveller’s) community. It would be interesting to hear your comments. As is so [...]
Jul 29 2011
Words, for obvious reasons, often seem inadequate when trying to write about ‘what-cannot-be-spoken’. For me, Arthur Sze manages it quite beautifully. 1. Is it in the anthracite face of a coal miner, crystallized in the veins and lungs of a steel worker, pulverized in the grimy hands of a railroad engineer? Is it in a [...]
Jun 18 2011
Hello Persephone I didn’t see the programme with Terry Patchet, but I do have a possible contribution to a discussion. It’s a poem that arose as I was in the process of preparing a funeral for a man who had, with great dignity, thought and caring, or so it seemed to me, ended his own [...]
Jun 17 2011
David Spangler’s lovely article on healing in our April issue brought a couple of interesting comments. Both writers asked if I had any suggestions about healing relationships, which was the main thrust of David’s article. To be honest, I had not thought about the subject very much – although absolutely aware of its importance. I [...]
Jun 17 2011
I loved this article. It is rather long, but keep at it – happily some sacred cows get the chop! A friend of mine who is a high school counselor told me recently that some of the children she worked with were worried about or even terrified by the prophecies surrounding December 21, 2012; the [...]
May 23 2011
This month’s article by David Spangler has the phrase: “One has to ‘walk’ on the earth, extending one’s self into the life of this world.” I published his article because of that sentence. On re-reading it today, I wondered why those words struck such a deep chord within me. So I will try to explain. [...]
May 23 2011
What most struck me in the past few days was a statement from President Obama in an interview he did for the CBS television news show, 60 Minutes. He was asked if he was going to release photos of Osama’s body, and he had said no, even though it might provide additional proof of Osama’s [...]