The Art of Aging

Ready For The Genung Syndrome?

Many thanks to Dr. Jennifer Soyke of Eugene, OR for finally putting a catchy name on that process which nobody wants to think about, much less talk about – death and dying. In her recent essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association, she recalls...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2009 9:58 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: The Genung Syndrome

Trust The Chaos

Whatever has happened in your life, the good and the bad, here is a message to put in your pocket and remember: On what do we Trust our own actions in life? Being right? Being wronged? Or attending the Improbabilities And always insufficient Knowledge...

Published Thu, Jun 09 2011 11:51 AM by The Art of Aging

What Does It All Mean?

I have been trying to find the ultimate of the meaning in life as I grow older. Recently, reading William Saroyan’s play again, “The Time Of Your Life”, his opening lines in Act 1 seem to do as fine a job of expressing what life is about as I have found...

Published Sun, Sep 04 2011 5:27 PM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Now is the time of your life.

Learning To Live As We Grow Old

Aging is like a traffic accident. We are walking, whistling probably, and as we cross a street we are blindsided by a truck. The truck is old age; silent, invisible, lurching up at us in the midst of our still youthful stride, amid our sweet thoughts...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2009 11:22 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Learn to live life.

As You Grow Older, You Can Grow Wiser and Healthier.

Modern Western medicine is beginning to accept the benefits of ancient Chinese experience. We, though the help of Eastern and Western science, can benefit from both. I have taken the following suggestions from Kenneth S. Cohen’s excellent book, “The Way...

Published Fri, Oct 28 2011 5:37 PM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Be wise and healthy.

Remember When?

“Be of this brightness dazed Whose unrecking fever Flings gold before it goes Into voids finally That have no measure. Bird-sleep, moonset, Island after island, Be of their hush On this tide that balance A time, for a time. Islands are not forever, Nor...

Published Sat, Nov 27 2010 9:29 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Remember When?

Learning To Give Oneself Away

Recognition The bird of ash has appeared at windows And the roads will turn away, mourning. What distances we survived, the fire With its one wing. And I with my blackened heart. I came home as a web to a spider, To teach the flies of my household Their...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 11:20 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Learning to give yourself away.

Open Yourself To Expanded Possibilities

As we age, we may find ourselves shrinking. We may find that our bodies are growing smaller, our interests contract, our walking slows, our energy and stamina falter. Many of our relationships and circle of activities grow smaller as old friends die or...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 9:27 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Open Yourself

“It’s Only A Few Degrees From Perfect.”

You walk into a room for a meeting or a party. You exclaim, “Oh, my gosh, it’s so cold in here!” Then, you either walk out or you spend the rest of the time feeling miserable, cold, and unhappy. What if a friend next to you had smiled and replied, “Why...

Published Thu, Mar 12 2009 9:46 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Change Your Life.

A Vitally Important Conversation

Dear Richard , Earlier this spring, Stephen Wallace of Benton City, Washington received a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer. With an estimated month to live - and having watched his wife suffer in agonizing pain as cancer overtook her body years...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2009 11:36 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: End of life choices

Transform Yourself.

Just because we’re growing older, doesn’t mean we still can’t grow smarter, and yes, we can truly create a new life for ourselves in these later years. We can gain the knowledge and courage to transform ourselves. The key to true transformation is that...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 12:06 PM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Open yourself.

Stop Thinking of Yourself As "Old".

We often live a self-fulfilling prophesy. As we age, we start unconsciously to begin mimicking the other older people around us. And often, those older people unconsciously begin to mimic their aged or already dead parents or grandparents – they slow...

Published Sun, May 24 2009 9:53 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Staying Young.

Fading Memories

He: “We met at nine.” She: “We met at eight.” He: “I was on time. She: “No, you were late.” He: “Ah, yes! I remember it well.” --- He: “That dazzling April moon!” She: “There was none that night.” “And the month was June.” He: “That’s right! That’s right...

Published Mon, Aug 03 2009 12:56 PM by The Art of Aging

You Are Getting Older, And You’re Also Getting Better!

You may no longer be the “hot babe” or the “handsome hunk” you used to be; so what? Some things do improve with age – fine wine, good cheese, even Galapagos tortoises. They never age. Scientists say, and they should know, that Galapagos tortoises lose...

Published Sat, Nov 22 2008 4:26 PM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Get yourself a second life.

Life Is Short, But It’s W-I-D-E!

Time is not yet done with us, even as we reach our last of years. What we saw and felt then is still a part of our incompleteness and is present in our choices at this very moment. Now, in the increased urgency of the time remaining, we still have the...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 9:30 AM by The Art of Aging

Filed under: Life is short.

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