Listen to your patterns of thought about aging
“Listen to yourself.” I’m trying to do just that: listen to the words I say, and especially to my tone of voice.
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Attachment or love: where is the borderline?
Buddhists believe that we should aim for a state of non-attachment, and that anyway, everything we attach ourselves to is temporary, so it’s kind of pointless to get attached. Well, that’s a gross over-simplication of a profound philosophy, but it’ll do as a definition for now. I do recognise that it may often be a […]
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Mountain Rescue: when good days go wrong in the mountains
With long experience as journalist, mountaineer, and alpine rescuer, Phillip Melchior is perfectly equipped to take us behind the news reports of life and death in the Southern Alps. He steps us through eleven dramatic and highly personal tales of alpine search and rescue, one decision at a time. “Make sure you fall in love […]
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A dream of eventual retirement. What does it mean?
In which my eyes are opened to the necessity, meaning, and value of so-called retirement and old age.
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Rules for aging well are just aphorisms if they can’t be enforced
Too much information? That’s good, in a way. It means we are forced to be highly selective about the truckloads of advice that come our way about aging in style. Our BS detectors are always at the ready. I’m left cold by tips on improving my character. (Whaddya mean, ‘Be opportunistic?’) I am interested in practical tips, stuff I can do and […]
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