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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

2011, 2018

Immortality Complex by Felice Rhiannon

Immortality Complex Felice Rhiannon In conversation with a friend a few days ago she dropped a phrase...”immortality complex”. She claims to have it, this dread dis-ease. While she and I do devote some time to the usual banter about aches, pains, and increasing attention to various diminishments, the bulk [...]

2010, 2018

Wisdom from The Elder Corner—Series 2 by Stan Paine

Wisdom from The Elder Corner—Series 2 Stan Paine Respect “Are we being good ancestors?”—Jonas Salk “…(A)s we seek ways of giving forward to the next generation, we travel home to revisit the anchoring values into which we were socialized.”—Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot One of the most common ways in which [...]

2009, 2018

Conscious Aging: Aiming for Fulfillment in Life’s Later Chapters by Ron Pevny

Conscious Aging: Aiming for Fulfillment in Life’s Later Chapters by Ron Pevny Certified Sage-ing® Leader,  Director of the Center for Conscious Eldering, and author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging   What do you aim for as you age?  This is a key question that is guiding much of the discussion [...]

2306, 2018

Wisdom from The Elder Corner—Series 1 by Stan Paine

Wisdom from The Elder Corner—Series 1 Stan Paine, CSL Stan Paine is a Certified Sage-ing Leader who has been actively involved in bringing Elder wisdom into his local church community in Eugene, Oregon.  We will be periodically publishing articles he has written on the SI website as blog posts.  [...]

1505, 2018

Rumpelstiltskin by Judith Helburn

Rumpelstiltskin  by Judith Helburn Oh, what, oh what shall I be called? Oh what, oh what do I want to be called? From the time we are born we are given labels. The doctor says, “It’s a boy,” or It’s a girl,” and we on the way to accumulating [...]

1604, 2018

Awakening to Action:  Finding & Following Our Call to Service

“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and civil rights leader Where do our passions—those causes we care most deeply about—come from?  How [...]

1504, 2018

Conscious Elders as Transformational Mystics: Awakening the Divine Human by John Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min.

Conscious Elders as Transformational Mystics: Awakening the Divine Human John Robinson, Ph.D., D.Min. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony [...]

1103, 2018

Becoming An Elder-Activist: My Kitchen Table Transformation

BY LYNNE ISER  My life changed at an unexpected moment eight years ago. My youngest daughter was 16, lingering in the kitchen as I sautéed onions and mushrooms for dinner. She was reading the newspaper and suddenly turned to me in tears and said, “I wish I grew up [...]

2202, 2018

Wind Raging Outside…Calm Inside …by Felice Rhiannon

Today a storm has arrived in my world at the edge of the English Channel. Winds gusting strongly enough to blow a person over. The sea is wild with waves, churning up sand from the depths, changing its color to an eerie olive green. Autumn’s leaves are ripped from [...]

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