BOOMERS AGING ABUNDANTLY

DO YOU THINK IT’S TIME TO RETIRE THIS PICTURE?

BOOMERS AGING WELL

I’ve been struggling for a while now to figure out what direction to head with Aging Abundantly. A decade has passed since I ventured into my own midlife chaos along with a generation of women who knew that somehow their aging process had to look different from their mother’s. It’s been a time of tremendous change and evolution of perspective and thought, not dissimilar to that of the 60’s. We are a generation that doesn’t do things half way! When we feel a call to action, we dive in hook, line and sinker.

I marvel at the ground the Boomer generation has covered in such a short time. (I remember when I wrote about hating being called a “boomer” – it was a “new” term being thrown about by people who couldn’t even begin to understand who we are or were. Oh, how I hate stereotypes! Clearly, I lost that battle! Marketing hooks and keywords now have control over us. Or, do they?

PERSPECTIVES ON AGING WOMEN

The success we have had in changing a deeply embedded cultural perspective of women over fifty was due in no small part to the internet. But it’s real champions were and continue to be the relentless, committed females (and a few good men), who as are writers, speakers, followers, activists and thinkers working tirelessly to understand their own aging process and articulate it. We are not our mother’s and our daughters will not be us!  And, we did our part. Boomers aging pushed the needle ahead, just as we did in the sixties.

KEEP ON KEEPING ON

Is the war over? Of course not, and it never will be, We will always push for greater acceptance and self-awareness.  We made a different, however, and that’s all we can hope to do. Why else would Vogue be featuring gorgeous senior models? Articles and news segments are proliferating everywhere on the adventures, the beauty, the style and the excitement of the mature woman. They heard our cry! They see our beauty, our passion and our wisdom. We are not invisible. They may not understand us, but you can bet they see us and value us. First, we had to value ourselves…and so we have.

THE NEXT PHASE

The next phase of the process belongs to the generation that follows us. Their job is to take what they have learned from us and add their own touches, their own sense of meaning, their own battles fought and won. It’s time to wrap it all up in a package and send it off into the universe. I’m eager to see what’s coming next!

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