Embrace Your Aging

Happy New Year! Another New year! It seems that the older we get, the faster the years go by. I remember thinking during graduate school in the 1970’s that the George Orwell dystopia book “1984” was both dooming- and far off. It was actually only a decade away. Time is short! Now I hear about the future impact of climate change, new self-driving autos or predicted demographics for 2025 and it feels like they are talking about tomorrow. When I look back on the years that I hav

Loads of Latkes. Hordes of Holly. Oodles of cookies. The holidays, whichever you celebrate- or don’t- are upon us. I talk with people who are so busy that they barely have time for a conversation. I pass people in the grocery store who are so stressed I fear getting run over by their cart. On the other hand, the wonderment in the little girl’s eyes as she waits to see Santa is worth the yearly ritual. That’s what this season is all about: magic, connection and giving. For th

Last week I watched my fifteen-year-old grandson belt out the old Beatle’s tune “Come Together”, a peace song originally written to support the presidential campaign of Timothy Leary against Ronald Reagan. I doubt this modern teen knew the song’s background, but he did a fantastic job of putting the message in my head- as well as prompting my legs to want to get up and dance! The juxtaposition of fond memories from the 60’s with the sight of my teen- age grandson singing as