Aging on Late Blooms

Ripened Experience: 70 Colorful Years

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_4351” align=“aligncenter” width=“956”] This should have read “Leave A Little Sparkle Behind Wherever You Go.”
However, I would have needed a larger canvas for that.[/caption]

Many people don’t live to see their 70th birthdays. I’m one of the lucky ones you might say. We do become more reflective as we age and this birthday finds me looking back over the years. You may ask what has living all these years brought my way? Surely, it’s brought what life brings to everyone of us - ups and downs, joys and sorrows, good and bad experiences, and so much more along the way.

Youthful Aging (Interview)

Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’m pleased to introduce my good friend, Cynthia, who is seventy-eight years young. She has always been a very positive influence on me in her outlook on life and her youthful enthusiasm for living. I wanted to know what was her secret to “youthful aging.” What were the life lessons she learned along the way that might help me with my own aging process? For those of you who have followed my posts, you may have noticed that I like to highlight my friends. I have done posts on the skills, talents, and abilities, or whatever moved me about some of my friends - and this post is just another example.

Growing Older

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

It’s my 67th Birthday today. I haven’t blogged for a while because my computer was hacked. However, thankfully, it’s up and running now since my brother gave it a complete overhaul. What an age we live in! When I went to do a search on Google, there were all these images of cakes at the top of my screen. I wondered which well-known person was having a Birthday today. I moved over the image to see who it could be - lo and behold, it said: Happy Birthday Jean! For someone 67 years young, it was wonderful of Google to acknowledge my birthday in this way. I am fortunate to live in this digital age and to have this kind of experience. Growing older comes with wonderful surprises!

On Becoming a Senior Citizen

Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” (Betty Friedan)

Life happens. The day has come that I am officially a Senior Citizen. While I’m looking forward to receiving my monthly pension cheques and all the other discounts and perks that come with my senior status, this post contains some of my observations over sixty-five years.

Sixty-five years is a long life. From the moment we’re born, the process of learning how to live in this world starts. We learn from our caregivers what are the social and cultural mores we are expected to live up to. Each and everyone of them does the best job they can to impact our positive growth and development. By the time one arrives at age 65, it’s alright to admit to oneself, if not to everybody else, that all these well-meaning and trusted souls were imperfect themselves. This means that I can’t be anywhere near perfect or any kind of saint. In our human nature, there are flaws. “Thinking well is the greatest excellence and wisdom: to act and speak what is true, perceiving things according to their nature.” (Herakleitos)

Aging on Late Blooms

Ripened Experience: 70 Colorful Years

Youthful Aging (Interview)

Growing Older

Recommended Reading for Baby Boomers

On Becoming a Senior Citizen