Aging Gracefully
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Emergence – Back to Life
It’s been a long year. Our world has been dragged into the depths of hybernation and soul searching. I feel that it’s time to come back to life. This past week I experienced a healing of my soul and an emergence. Cycles and Changes Every living thing experiences cycles and changes. There is the ebb and flow of the tides, the hibernation of plants and animals in the winter, the rebirth of these beings in the spring. It’s a part of life that we cannot ignore. Everyone has been affected by the quarantine and the economy and politics! Yet we all have choices when it comes to how we recover…
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Sixty and Free to Just Be!
The Year of Turning Sixty I’m officially a Crone! I can now say that I have reached the phase of life where I can be considered a crone or wise woman. And it is amazing! After my 60th birthday, I was too busy to realize that I was actually sixty!!! Six months later, I am realizing what this means. It’s a huge deal! It’s the beginning of a sort of ‘freedom’. I am free to just be! My kids are grown and my work life is winding down. I find it very exciting but at the same time I didn’t think it would feel different. It definitely does! Focusing on…
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Movement of Life – Update
Life is filled with surprises, endings, new beginnings and unexpected journeys. We need to be ready in a moment’s notice to embrace what’s to come! I started to title this “New Beginnings” but “Movement of Life” seems more freeing! Not So Good With Change I have been licking my wounds and trying to see the good in weeks of not so great! After all of the hurdles and paths I have been down over the years, all of the self help and therapy, I honestly thought that I would be good with change. I thought I was truly prepared for anything that life threw at me. At 59 years old,…
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My Fear of Aging and How Do I Accept Change?
Throughout my life I have always feared change. I guess FEAR is not the right word. I should say I have avoided change to the best of my ability. I get comfortable in my life and when there are disruptions or hurdles to cross, it throws me off. These changes knock me out of my comfort zone. I know I am not alone. Surely most of us go through these times. I have a fear of aging. In the later years of life I prided myself on how I jumped right into the fire and dealt with the hurdles or lessons of life and came out on the other side…
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Surviving Aches and Pains
Life can become so busy that without realizing it we (actually I meant to say “I”) start to neglect projects, family and friends. But more important, I begin neglecting myself. I don’t take the time to listen to my mind or my body. And then one day it starts screaming at me and I can’t ignore it any longer. I am searching for a way to survive with my aches and pains. A New Year It’s 2019 and I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions. They never last for more than a few weeks or months. But this year MUST be different. It will be my 60th year on this…
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How to Accept Death
As in past blog posts, I am posting old journal entries that helped me get through rough times. Here is one that I found on dying. Writing this journal entry was my way of figuring out how to accept death. My Best Friend’s Husband My best friend’s husband passed away this weekend. I was around when she met him and when they married and had children. He was like a brother to me. Steve wasn’t even 60 years old yet. How does this happen? We are supposed to grow old and enjoy grandchildren and great grandchildren. How is she surviving this horrible loss? How would I ever survive such a…
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Life Half Over? Or Is Life Just Starting? Thoughts on Aging
I have so many thoughts on aging these days. As each birthday approaches I start wondering, is life half over or just staring? I love reading the Wild Woman Sisterhood posts that are on my Facebook screen almost daily. They resonate with me! I have never been one to conform to the fads or the norms. My Childhood Dreams My childhood was on the tails of the hippie movement. We watched the older sisters of my best friends walk out the door with their hippie beads around their necks and their bell bottoms and halter tops. My soul surrounded itself with folk songs, black lights, beads hanging from my room,…
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I LOVE SUMMER
I love summer! This phrase comes from my lips at least once a week. There are people in my life who have heard it so much that they just ignore me now. That’s okay. I will continue to say it. It doesn’t matter how hot it is, or how humid, I still love it. Summer is the best part of the year. I guess that’s why I enjoy Florida so much. Ahhhhh….. the smells and feel of a hot, humid Florida night!!! But that’s another story for another time. From as far back as I can remember, summertime was the best! My memory holds visions of pop up thunderstorms that…
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The Day of My Birth
Birthdays! For the past few years I have made an effort to quietly let my birthday slide by unnoticed. As if being in denial would stop time and keep me at a young age! My brain tells me I am young but my body begs to differ! It’s amazing how age creeps up on us when we least expect it. We feel so young and able to do everything we have always done physically and then we lift our grandchild and twirl her around in the air and the soreness kicks in for days after! What the heck??? I go to the gym, lift weights and try to remember to…
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Shannon The Riveter
I can’t remember what it was the other night that reminded me of this, but for years I have always tried to fix things around the house on my own before I call in the professionals. Sometimes it works and sometimes it is a disaster. My ex started calling me Shannon The Riveter. This trait (or fault) of mine stems from my second marriage where I was alone at home a lot. I would try to tackle the leaks and issues on my own rather than admit that I needed help. DRIP, DRIP, DRIP One night I walked down to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and since…
