WILDLY FREE ELDER
The Artistry of Aging
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Elder Muse/Day #6: “Softening The Clenched Fist”
“The letter below touched me deeply this morning as many of the On Being offerings do. It felt timely to share this. I trust that you will pass it on to others to encourage listening in on future and past global conversations plus serving as a catalyst for our own explorations….”
Elder Muse/Day #5: Making Peace With Silence
“Perhaps silence is the guide we are looking for to expand beyond the fear and feeling of overwhelm…..into trust.”
Elder Muse/Day #4: Be The Source of Laughter
“In the last few years I consciously decided to go out into the world with intentions. They are to be kind, to listen giving my full attention even if I might not agree, to notice the beauty in the ordinary, to extend compassion, and to be the source of laughter. These seemingly simple intentions create….”
Elder Muse/Day #3: Wayfinder
“What better example of a “Wayfinder” than this “mycorrhizal network” connecting individual plants and trees together to transfer water, nitrogen, carbon and other minerals. Indeed a harmonious, cooperative, creative and sustainable network that operates from an ancient biological blueprint. Here the older, taller individuals – elders – take care of the youngsters and those who need additional support.”
Elder Muse/Day #2: How To Be In The Darkness
“One day, guided by the dragon that had appeared to him so suddenly, he was walking in the nearby forest and found for the first time a very old elder Oak of 800 years. The instructions were clear. Take off your shoes and bare your soles, and your soul, in the presence of this elder. This oak held wisdom and possibility if he could only listen to the vibrations that transmitted through his bare feet on the earth and his hands on the skin of the tree….”
Elder Muse/Day #1: Sha-con-o-hey
“As she walked through the trees filled with the leaves of summer, following the trail set out long ago by those who came before her, she could feel the ancients speaking to her in a language only those who had reached the elder stage of life could understand….”
Only Inhale and Exhale
“How do you let go?
…into those moments of “only now” residing in each inhale and exhale while embracing the texture, beauty and challenges of those experiences. An extraordinary acceptance of what is unfolding within the human journey – all of it. Can we face whatever is momentarily taking our attention, and not fight it?…”
Living Each Day As Your First
“Some days it feels like an endless litany of new challenges to face being in an aging body. Yet living as if it is our first day of the rest of our lives can shift our attention to the childlike qualities of wonder, awe, play, creativity and curiosity.”
Peace Is A Practice
“But what if there is another way to be. Where nothing takes you from a center of peace inside. That your actions and ways of being come from this deep well that never changes.”
The Facts of Life: You Might As Well Love
“How rare it can be to have someone in our lives who we feel safe enough with to talk about what’s really on our minds and in our hearts. To witness our journey without judgement or advise, no matter where it takes us.
Or perhaps it is just that we haven’t cracked open our own hearts….”
WILDLY FREE ELDER 