Joy of Ageing - Relationships

RELATIONSHIPS – AN INTRODUCTION

2/5/2022

There are two things in life that are certain and from which we cannot escape – death and relationships! Most of us have a myriad of relationships as we move through life. We invite you to find the gems in these articles from our writers, and to explore what is available to us when we bring the magnifying glass to our responsibility in all our relationships.

IN CELEBRATION OF BECOMING AN ELDER

1/5/2022

How a photograph of an elder woman had me pondering on my relationship with my own ageing.

A request from the Joy of Ageing website asked for permission to use a photograph taken recently. The subject heading read ‘Your amazing photo!’

LETTING GO OF FAMILY CONSCIOUSNESS

1/3/2022

Artist: Bernadette Curtin

Last week I was unwell. I’m generally not at ease with being unwell and find it difficult to settle and surrender. However, being unwell often brings insights and a deepening as I connect with what is behind the particular illness or body discomfort I’m experiencing. This time the insight came to me when I was sharing with others a particular family dilemma I was facing.

DEEPENING INTIMACY

1/12/2021

Artist: Joseph Barker

Joan and Susan first met around fourteen years ago at a Universal Medicine Retreat and many things have changed in that intervening period amongst which is the passing of the years and the cycles of life. Susan would have been 62 years and Joan 66, and in retrospect there is a very different feeling and energy now than there was then. Being in one’s sixth decade feels considerably different to being at a time when the eighth decade is not too far away or as in Joan’s case is only a month away.

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH CELEBRATIONS

1/12/2021

To begin my story, I felt to look up the definition of what ‘Celebrate’ means. This excerpt is taken directly from the Cambridge dictionary: “To take part in special enjoyable activities in order to show that a particular occasion is important.”

For most of my life family celebrations have not been a source of enjoyment.

ENCOUNTERS WITH STRANGERS

1/12/2021

Have you found yourself in conversation with a perfect stranger recently? Where the connection that is made in an instant is deeply personal and trusting?

Recently I have had three such encounters, and each of them touched me deeply. It is such a privilege when people open up in conversation, and it goes much deeper than superficial chat.

CELEBRATIONS

1/11/2021

Birthday celebrations were big in my family, but not something I have been big in celebrating. My mother made it all happen. Three of the family had birthdays in the one week, first me, then my father then my brother. Mum would bake each of us a cake, with icing, candles and all, and the birthday person chose the menu for the evening. To say the least I was a bit over birthdays by the end of the week.

IN THE WORDS OF HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

31/8/2021

I’m currently reading a book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They are discussing how the current situations around the world can make us feel frightened or angry and cause us to withdraw. While the book covers many topics, there is a chapter on loneliness, which is too long to reprint in full here, but I wanted to share a couple of pages with our readers. ~ Gayle, C. Australia

BEING A GRANDPARENT

31/7/2021

Artist: Bernadette Curtin

Do we feel we are entitled to certain privileges, or special entitlements as a grandparent? “I have a right to tell you what to do because I am ‘older’, ‘wiser’, ‘I know better’.” Self-entitlements, rights, expectations and privileges can be perpetuated by family traditions or personal ideals and beliefs, or they may be based on society’s expectations of how the ‘role’ of grandparenting should look.

IN SEARCH OF TRUE FAMILY

31/5/2021

The majority of us have been raised in a family but how many of us have found this to be a truly harmonious and supportive environment to be in? Some of us have beautiful memories of our earlier years, many have a mixture of warm loving memories interspersed with recollections that are painful to remember while others, sadly have only known pain.

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Shannon Everest, Matt Paul, Gayle Cue

RELATIONSHIPS – AN INTRODUCTION

IN CELEBRATION OF BECOMING AN ELDER

LETTING GO OF FAMILY CONSCIOUSNESS

DEEPENING INTIMACY

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH CELEBRATIONS

ENCOUNTERS WITH STRANGERS

CELEBRATIONS

IN THE WORDS OF HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

BEING A GRANDPARENT

IN SEARCH OF TRUE FAMILY

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