Aging

"Our investment advisor wanted us to make a list of our priorities, values, and retirement goals. We tried and it was harder than we thought." 

Here's a way we developed to clarify retirement priorities and outline what's important to you.  

 It is only when we truly understand that we have a limited time on earth... that we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it is the only one we had." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD

 
Across continents and as long as there have been people, we humans have gathered to explore meaning and to wonder at the age-old questions: Why am I here? What is the meaning of my life? What will become of me?

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do 

with your one wild and precious life?" 

Mary Oliver: The Summer Day

We each have but one life to live, and to give, though most days it seems neither precious nor wild. But it is our life-our one life... 

 Each one of us has a particular brand of resilience, woven from the strands of our life experiences thus far. The purpose of resilience is to endure the waves and undercurrents of life and to move through them, buoyed by strengths gathered and honed through previous life-storms. Within each of us are strengths that lay forgotten and virtues untended.  These can help to strengthen us and support us through trials. This article teaches us how to remember our anchors, rediscover our strengths, renew hope, reaffirm forgiveness, & recover resilience. 

The following resources are a series of essays, poems, and books for those who wish to explore living life and navigating aging with health, grit, wisdom, understanding, and nuance.

As we age, we're wired to review and reflect on our lives. Each of us would like to leave a lasting legacy of love. We'd like to be great mentors, demonstrating courage, kindness, and love. The question is, how? From the past, we can recover and record the lessons we've learned, and the experiences gleaned, and pass them on. This reflection features personal stories of mentors living in the heart of love and teaches us how to pass on our wisdom and experience.