culture - Aging Abundantly

Financial Hardship and Older Women

Financial hardship impacts many women who are trying to age abundantly! I am one of them. Researching this topic, I ran across an article in the New York Times entitled Why Older Women Face Greater Financial Hardship Than Older Men. What I read in the article did not surprise me,…

BACKWARDS THINKING

We live in a world that encourages backwards thinking. Trained to use our rational minds and to look outside ourselves for direction, we ignore the guidance of our body. The sun streamed through the kitchen window this morning. The warm inviting tendrils wrapped themselves around me like a lost lover.…

Our Spiritual Nature

My nights of late have been filled with dreams of struggle. Arguments, unease, confusion. I am going through a deep change. I can feel it happening in many areas of my life and my dreams seem to be reflecting the movement. What’s different this time is that some of the dreams…

The Body, Mind, Spirit Connection – Day #7

Our modern culture has, in my opinion, a tendency to pull things apart into quantifiable pieces. Our society has become so complex and diverse that our drive to understand and manage it, has led to habits of thought that compartmentalize. We judge from a distance what we do not know or…

Self-Actualization….Really??

I was up later than usual last night. It was one of those sleepless nights. I don’t usually watch TV when I can’t sleep, but I had it on in the background for company while I worked on my laptop, and David Letterman came on. My curiosity peaked when he…

Be Who You Were Born to Be

As we get older life takes on new texture and color. Sometimes it’s dark and disturbing. At other times it’s richer than we ever imagined. Our focus sharpens. Things that once were paramount in importance suddenly seem silly and frivolous. Other things, that we previously put on the back burner, take…