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WISDOM UNITES US ALL – THE JOY OF FRIENDSHIPS ACROSS AGES

30/7/2018

I now live a life where I am inspired by friends of many ages – but it wasn’t always this way. I held the common belief that the older I get the more I should know. Those younger generally know less, and those older know more. Pretty straight forward and if I were to evaluate this based on life experience I could not be faulted. The younger a person was, the less ‘life experience’ they generally had.

ABOUT LOVE

27/2/2018

What is Love? This is a question that I am sure everyone has wrestled with in his or her lifetime. I have always questioned it. My mother loved me I know, but her love was very needy and thus it was smothering for me and for my two brothers. We recognised that for her, this was her expression of love, but for myself it was not what I wanted from her and it was not what I felt ‘love’ meant to me. So what did it mean?

SIMPLE YET PROFOUND

30/1/2018

Recently I have been in the process of cutting a life long energetic cord that my son and I have had between us. This happened a couple of weeks ago, and since then I have been amazed at the simple changes that have come about as a consequence.
The changes I have noticed are in the way I relate to my son and people in general.

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE

13/9/2017

"How did you do this?", and “How did you find such a beautiful man?”, was what many friends asked me. Honestly I wasn't busy looking for a relationship, and strange as it sounds, it just came to me. I am 61 years old and I really thought that I would never meet a man in this lifetime. I have had a few relationships in my life but they didn’t work out.

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

30/7/2017

Our neighbours can have a big impact in our lives. As elders, we probably have had both good and bad relationships with our neighbours, at one time or another. In my last home, I had a delightful couple on one side and very irritating neighbours on the other! With the increase of high-density housing, it’s almost understandable that we have become somewhat protective about ‘our space.’

GETTING INTIMATE IN OUR MID-LATE FIFTIES …

29/6/2017

Up until eighteen months ago I had been a woman with two marriages and two divorces and a long-term live-in relationship behind me. It had been nine years since the previous relationship and I had not begun to consider the possibility of a relationship in the future – after all I was 53 years old, too old for a new relationship? Right? I was just arriving at menopause – was there life after this?

THREE AGEING SISTERS LEARNING LOVE AND RESPECT

28/2/2017

Throughout our lives we three sisters have shared, fallen out, and come together again, and supported each other in many ways. For ten years in our mid lives we met three times a year for communal sharing between the three of us. This fell apart when we all became stressed and tired, with a lot of ill health at the same time, and all our old judgments, grudges and prejudices came out.

RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVERYWHERE!

27/2/2017

A recent experience has shown me that when I love myself so much more than I used to, I am more open to others and there are many supportive people with me at all times, especially in times of need. This was demonstrated to me recently when at 85 years of age, I had a car accident. I had been to work at the Hospice Op Shop and as it was so busy with staff away on holiday, I chose to stay on longer than I should have, as I was tired.

APPRECIATING CHILDREN

27/12/2016

As circumstances had it, I never had children even though giving birth is one of the greatest experiences a woman can have. It was not because I am anti-children, far from it! Being born in 1943, I grew up in an era where women were socialised from very young to believe that it was their sole role to get married and produce a family.

being your own best friend

23/8/2016

Being your own best friend starts by you developing a great relationship with you! Caring or looking after yourself seems like such a simple thing to do. I mean how difficult is it to brush your teeth, exercise, eat well, etc.?
Yet how many of us take the time to really tune into our body and feel what would truly deeply nurture us, beyond these basic care necessities?
We live in our own body so shouldn't we know it better than anyone else? Doesn't it make sense to be your own best friend? For me it has been a long and winding road getting to the point of even listening to my body, rather than disregarding it.

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WISDOM UNITES US ALL – THE JOY OF FRIENDSHIPS ACROSS AGES

ABOUT LOVE

SIMPLE YET PROFOUND

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

GETTING INTIMATE IN OUR MID-LATE FIFTIES …

THREE AGEING SISTERS LEARNING LOVE AND RESPECT

RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVERYWHERE!

APPRECIATING CHILDREN

being your own best friend

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