The perks of reaching 50 or being over 60 and heading towards 70!
01. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
02. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
03. No one expects you to run – anywhere.
04. People call at 9 pm and ask, did I wake you?
05. People no longer view you Continue reading “Perks of being over 50 – Humor about Aging”
After our conversation, I began to think about which pieces of music would best suit your service. And since I don’t yet know a great deal about your Sunday services, I had to go a little on instinct, buoyed by your request for ‘lively’ music.
So I decided to just ask the Universe what would work best for you, and the very moment I intended to ask, I was immediately drawn to The Butterfly Song, which comes from my ‘humanity healing’ album, entitled, ‘For All I Care’.
I don’t know whether you ever did ‘butterfly prints’ as a child; those paintings where you paint one half of a piece of paper and then fold it over, so that the paint prints onto the other side of the paper, which is then opened to reveal the image of a butterfly. I remember them fondly and much later came to see those butterfly images as a metaphor. One side is a mirror of the other. Which is like how the universe faces itself. The Yin and Yang. How people often see externally what is actually within them.
Appropriately, the album’s title also became a reflection, ‘For All I Care’. Said one way (For all I Care!), it sounds like a nonchalant statement of apathy, but on the other hand, Continue reading “Songs for Your Midlife Transition: From Sam Joseph”
I received this this morning, and thought of everyone in mid-life who needs to experience more self-love – starting with me! It’s about a new movie -Doors Opening – the message is from Cheryl Richardson…
I’ve just finished the “I Can Do It” conference here in Toronto and, before I go to bed, I wanted to share some of my notes with you from an extraordinary documentary that was shown at lunch today. The movie was called, Doors Opening, and it’s the story of the work Louise Hay did with men Continue reading “Midlife Transition: The importance of self-love”
Baby Boomers make up a third of the U.S. population and over the last few years have reshaped North American culture. For any organization to thrive, it will have to be attuned to boomer values and lifestyle. We are the generation that in the 60’s believed we could change the world. And, perhaps we are doing just that.
The choices that boomers tend to make are affecting all areas of American life – politics, business, politics, family, schools, and even religion & spirituality.
I, for one, have found it intriguing to study what baby boomers want and although this list is not all inclusive, it represents what I have seen to date:
What Boomers Want
1.To Make a Difference – Starting in the ‘hippie’ years, Love has been the number one cry of boomers. We want a world that works where people love one another and where we care for each other’s needs.
2. We Still want PEACE and we want to be safe-
Now, it’s not just war. We want our children and grandchildren not to have to face guns in school or predators lurking to abduct them. We want a world free of environmental disasters.
3. We want to speak and hear the truth – perhaps especially from the media and from our elected leadership.
5. We want adventure – we always have. Our generation enjoys travel, because we have come to know the world as connected. We also see travel as a way of visiting our global family and friends.
6. We want health care that works for all – and want to be assured that health benefits will be there when we need them.??
??7. We want to live longer and healthier lives. We want to cooperate with our medical providers – rather than to be told what to do.
??8. A new paradigm of age-ing. Especially in the media and among the beauty and fashion industry.
