Tag: Aging

Ask your Son

Spring Grove HS class of 1977
Seven months official notice.

 

Ask your Son.

Ask your wife.

Odds are decent they’ll tell you to go.

You get a handful of these High School class reunions in a lifetime.

If your son plays football, you’ve no doubt seen a couple dozen games from 7th grade to four years worth of college.

Remember, please, after all, it’s your 40th High School class reunion.

Maybe it’s college homecoming. Or a special tribute to the players. could be an insanely good reason to attend the football game.

Knowing in March that Oct 28th is a conflict between your Son’s college football game and your 40th (you caught that, right, 40th?) reunion, and you’re going to pass on the reunion to attend one of four Fall’s worth of college football games? And let’s assume you’ve already attended a dozen or two High School games, ok?

There’s an opportunity to teach a child about childhood relationships. Attending High School reunions is one of them.

My Mom taught and continues to teach me.

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Keep overwhelm at bay

food choice quote
From Twitter yesterday. Author unknown.

 

Keep overwhelm at bay.

Because if i don’t, i can see first hand what my life will be like.

Observe people 20, 30 and 40 years ahead of you.

When they were your current age, were they doing what you are doing?

Or, were they not doing what you’re doing?

Mentally, physically, spiritually, career-wise, and at home?

 

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Was this the first time he thanked me for visiting?

Bruce Springsteen
Bruce was becoming an American icon about the same time i was becoming friends with Cheryl (1979).

 

Was this the first time he thanked me for visiting?

Maybe.

Can’t recall the last time.

A simple gesture gave me hope yesterday.

The wait of 37 years came with no expectation.

Hope that i am changing in order to be a better nursing home visitor.

 

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Being intentional with the inevitable

Orlando sunrise
Yesterday morning from our front porch

 

Being intentional with the inevitable.

No one gets younger.

No one lives forever.

When someone lives a long time (think 80, 85, 90+), we can begin to feel (because we hope it will happen) like they’ll live forever.

One slip, one sudden or tough illness, or simply Mother Nature wearing out and the departure to the afterlife quickly begins.

The time to be ready is before it happens.

Yeah, looks good on paper but who have you witnessed do it?

Most of us answer, “No one.”

So how do you do it?

My theory – be intentional.

Say the things (now) you would want to say if the end was certain.

Ask the questions you’ll regret never asking.

 

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This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Winnie, can you help my Dad?

Nursing home double occupancy room
Winfield is behind the curtain. A 15-year old is bedside.

 

Winnie, can you help my Dad?

i know you’re 101 year-old, bed-ridden body leaves you physically incapacitated, but my goodness, your mind – your mind is astonishing.

Can you help me, educate me, and encourage me to develop a deeper and wider wisdom about what it’s like to stare death in the face every day?

And through this and with this, help my 90-year old Father-in-Law fight a good fight every day.

 

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This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s career health website, click here.

 

On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.