Do you know what your purpose in life is? This is not a question that’s easy for many to answer. Purpose is a thing that we seem to be chasing, trying to figure out as it morphs and changes and slips through our fingers. One day we think it’s one…
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Be Useful – What Do You Do Best – What Are Your Gifts?
I never felt like I knew how to be useful as a child. My skills were limited. The youngest of five, my siblings had little use for me and more often than not I was a burden not an aid. They were useful! They taught me things. My sister taught me…
View More Be Useful – What Do You Do Best – What Are Your Gifts?Aging Abundantly Is An Inside Job
Aging Abundantly sounds wonderful, doesn’t it. But it takes work. It’s an “inside job”. It seems like a hundred years ago that Sophie Lumen of The Art of Aging began to amass her spectacular following on Facebook. We stumbled across each other and immediately recognized that we were kindred spirits.…
View More Aging Abundantly Is An Inside JobAging Abundantly Book Club Selection
This month’s selection for the Aging Abundantly Book Club is a recent favorite of mine. I Will Not Live An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose by Dawna Markova is at it’s heart poetic. Packed with images, metaphors and enough symbolic language to keep me giddy for weeks, it is a…
View More Aging Abundantly Book Club SelectionDid the Woodstock Generation Lose Its Way?
Every day I’m a little more amazed at the materialism in our country. Even as many of us struggle to tighten our budgets and live in spite of lost wages, the more majority of our citizens live abundantly by the world’s standards. We are blessed and yet we find it difficult to be grateful.
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