Posted in Aging and Buddhism, Aging and Meditation, Loneliness on Jul 29th, 2009
Loneliness often increases as we grow older. Certainly when those we know begin to pass away (which may start when we are in our 50s) there is a kind of loneliness that comes and cannot easily be assuaged. Their loss is permanent. I have a thumbnail summary of Buddhism that I have mentioned here before [...]
Posted in Aging and Meditation, Aging and Spirituality on Jul 18th, 2009
The aging brain can learn and grow. This new conventional wisdom—based on the latest neurophysiological research—replaces the old conventional wisdom (which was that the brain has only a fixed number a cells set at birth and that older people cannot learn with the flexibility of younger people). So much for conventional wisdom of any kind. [...]
Posted in Baby Boomers and Aging, Worry on Jul 7th, 2009
“There is nothing so relaxed as the shoulders of a very wealthy person when the talk turns to money.” Jon Carroll, columnist for the San Francisco chronicle, once said this, and he is probably mostly right. For the rest of us—and even for the wealthy, actually–money is an issue and cause for anxiety. For those [...]
