Category: Getting Older
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The Fabulousness of Fifty Two
Yup, I turned 52 and what a joy it is to be in this decade of life surrounded by people I love.
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Embracing Life’s Meaning: Choosing lychee martinis and love and everything in between.
We’re of an age where we start to wonder “what’s it all about”. Joyfully, the answer is “whatever you want it to be.” And also lychee martinis.
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A life worth living needs a few hills
It occurs to me, freewheeling down a hill I fought hard to get to the top of, that life satisfaction lies in being okay with hills.
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Flown the Coop – The nest is half empty
Last week our eldest child flew the coop. Empty nester stage looms large. But that nomenclature annoys me. I’m renaming it Graduated, and thinking of parenting as flight school, instead.
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Reflections on 21 years of marriage. AKA: growing old together is a privilege
It’s our wedding anniversary this weekend. From the vantage point of kids almost out of school, looking back across our lives together, I’m reminded that life is a winding, undulating road with ups and downs. And it takes commitment to the relationship, and respect for the individuals within it, to keep walking it together.
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Wise up chicken, said younger me to current me.
Something strange has happened to me since I turned 50. I feel quite disconnected from my old self. I’m finding myself breathless on occasion, struggling to work out who I am and what I’m good at. But then, my younger self said – wise up chicken, embrace joy. So wise, younger me!
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New year, new resolutions, new you?
New year… new resolutions, new plans, new you? Even if you don’t tend toward that sort of thing, there is an impulse to think about starting fresh post the midnight fireworks. Of course, every day is the start of a new year. Each new dawn a full twirl around the sun since the last time…
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The times they are a changing…
This week our eldest child graduated from high school. There are still a set of exams to complete, but formal schooling is done and dusted. It is a momentous milestone in the life of any child. But it’s also a pretty huge “WTF??” for us. You don’t really notice time passing. You just notice the…
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Everything Changes – how can we deal with it and still love life?
Everything changes. Acceptance. Gratitude. Things I’m learning, or at least trying to.
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Never Quit on a Hill: Lessons from the bike
Cycling can teach us a lot about resilience. I often have to tell myself we never quit on the hill. But it’s empowering. A reminder that what you are doing in this moment is hard and so feels hard, but more importantly, that it is just temporary.
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