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Welcome to the Sage-ing International Blog

The blogs on this page are primarily written by Sage-ing International members.

Should you wish to contribute to our blog, it must not have been published elsewhere, in part or whole.

The length should be between 500 and 1000 words. The subject must be of interest to our members and readers (a Sage-ing/Conscious Ageing topic, e.g. life review, qualities of a wise elder, spirituality/spiritual growth, facing our mortality, legacy, community, service, forgiveness work, images of ageing, etc.).

Please submit your proposed entry to Martha Christie admin@sage-ing.org

1105, 2017

“The Prejudice of Ageism” by Ina Albert, CSL

   New Yorker Magazine published a cartoon in a March, 2017 issue that revealed the underside of our attitude toward aging. A husband and wife are standing in line to buy movie tickets. The woman says to the cashier, “One senior ticket and one refuses to accept he’s a [...]

1704, 2017

“Fearful About Retirement? Use What You Know” by Bob Atchley

I began to study how people adapt to retirement in 1965. By the time I retired from directing the Scripps Gerontology Center in 1998, I had surveyed and interviewed about five thousand people concerning their experiences of retirement. I had written two books and more than forty journal articles [...]

1703, 2017

“This Business of Aging: Relationships for Men” by Wes Carter

For us ‘60 Something’ blokes we can spend a lot of time being preoccupied and drawn into how to live out the remainder of our life without stress, illness, or the concerns and interests that held and captured us in the earlier part of our life. Sometimes we now [...]

2402, 2017

“Harvesting, One Day at a Time: Alchemy for Serenity” by Mary Anne Ingenthron

“Harvesting” is one of the key components of developing a spiritual practice for aging consciously.  It is about reviewing our unique life experiences (Life Review) and garnering lessons learned from the examination and contemplation of them. Rabbi Zalman Schacter Shalomi  in From Age-ing to Sage-ing challenges us to bring calm and [...]

1102, 2017

INSPIRATION and EMPOWERMENT to all SAGES in SERVICE

It’s a new year and we are living in the midst of historic cultural, political and environmental turmoil. As Service Committee members, we queried: How can we be of service to one another in our Sage-ing community?  How can we live into our tagline “wisdom and spirit in action” [...]

2601, 2017

“What Aging Men Want” by John Robinson, PhD, DMin

What a curious title: What Aging Men Want. Don't they just want to retire, play golf, fish, travel, volunteer, watch sports and see the grandkids? What more could they want? And anyway, don't most retired guys say they're busier and happier than ever? After carefully interviewing forty men I [...]

1201, 2017

Job, Career, Vocation–It Matters What You Call It by Alan Rider, CSL, SCF

  “On the day after I retire from an active career, who am I?”  That’s what many of us catch ourselves asking as we cross the threshold into elderhood, challenged with one of life’s basic identity issues.  As a career counselor and interfaith spiritual director, I’ve often been drawn into [...]

2812, 2016

Community and Sage-ing by Gary Carlson, PhD, CSL, SCF

In her December 2016 Legacy Tips & Tools, Rachael Freed wrote about the importance of being in community in today’s world.  We truly need our friends, our communities, to help us make sense of a world that seems to be in crisis.  I think she was right on target, and [...]

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