Latest Reflections
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FALL EQUINOX, AGING, AND APPLE BUTTER
Read more: FALL EQUINOX, AGING, AND APPLE BUTTERA fall afternoon spent making apple butter with a ninety-three-year-old neighbor becomes a quiet lesson in how to keep living fully through loss and aging.
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What My Whoop Coach Taught Me About Aging Well
Read more: What My Whoop Coach Taught Me About Aging WellA reflection on what a Whoop coach and months of body data taught me about redefining success, pacing myself, and finding peace with a slower kind of strength as I age.
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Time Passages — Chasing the White Rabbit
Read more: Time Passages — Chasing the White RabbitA reflection on how the internet and daily distractions pull us out of the present moment — and why staying grounded matters more as we age.
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Exploring Spirituality: Faith, Prayer, and Aging Consciously
Read more: Exploring Spirituality: Faith, Prayer, and Aging ConsciouslyAfter a couple of references to Christianity in previous posts, I thought it only fair to share what I mean by Spirit in this blog and explore my own background and current attitude toward spirituality. I grew up in the deep south, and I have a lot of memories of going to church, of ministers…
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Each Breath I Take: Breathing, Aging, and the Vagus Nerve
Read more: Each Breath I Take: Breathing, Aging, and the Vagus NerveMy whole premise in this blog is the connection between our Minds, Bodies, and Spirits, and how that affects our living and our aging. That connection is present from the moment the baby leaves its mother’s body and takes that first gasp of air as a separate physical being. In Genesis, God is said to…
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Vulnerability – Whatever the Age – We Are Not Alone
Read more: Vulnerability – Whatever the Age – We Are Not AloneYou may have noticed in the earlier posts that Mind, Body and Spirit have a kind of porous way of bleeding into each other. If you aren’t trying to lock one part of yourself out of your life, you may have recognized that the same thing happens in your life and body. By locking out,…