In answer to the question “What do you wish the world made more space for right now?” My answer would be slow living. The world has gotten so caught up in moving faster that it has forgotten how to savor, how to listen, how to raise our youth so that they feel safe and equipped for a world we may never see.
Slow living to me means more leisure time. More time to reflect, daydream, create art, play, laugh, dance, sing, and experience nature. Slow living also means connecting with the seasons, the stars, the ancestors, one’s own intuition, the collective unconscious.
Slow living might look like being involved in growing vegetables, raising chickens, neighborhood potlucks, reading by the fire. It might also look like repairing one’s home, listening to and mentoring your children, and being less concerned about the acquisition of material possessions, status, impressing others, posturing online, passing judgements, and giving all one’s healthiest years to chasing money.
Marianne, thanks for putting into words what I have come to realize over these years in my 60’s. While I’m still very active I have suffered some set backs in illness that I have rolled with quite peacefully. There are times though where I am feeling well but am just as content to sit and reflect thanks to being at peace with who I am and where I’ve been in life. God Bless and thank you for sharing such wonderful insight.
I often write about this. When I thought I was entering retirement, it became re(fire)ment. Emerging later in life anew or in an expanded version of your consciousness is worth the applause for courage and empowerment.
You're speaking into my direct experience right now. I so appreciate that you actually have the energy and will to write anything right now Marianne. I literally can only go outside in nature to metabolize my midlife grief, be with my doggie, make art, listen to music, cry and sleep these days.
Believe me, I hear you. Add today's politics to the list! But we have to counter the undertow. And by the way, the things you're doing are important too...
@Marianne, I hope you are in touch with Chip Conley from the Modern Elders Academy. You would be such an amazing guest teacher at one of his two campuses (Santa Fe/Baja).
In answer to the question “What do you wish the world made more space for right now?” My answer would be slow living. The world has gotten so caught up in moving faster that it has forgotten how to savor, how to listen, how to raise our youth so that they feel safe and equipped for a world we may never see.
Slow living to me means more leisure time. More time to reflect, daydream, create art, play, laugh, dance, sing, and experience nature. Slow living also means connecting with the seasons, the stars, the ancestors, one’s own intuition, the collective unconscious.
Slow living might look like being involved in growing vegetables, raising chickens, neighborhood potlucks, reading by the fire. It might also look like repairing one’s home, listening to and mentoring your children, and being less concerned about the acquisition of material possessions, status, impressing others, posturing online, passing judgements, and giving all one’s healthiest years to chasing money.
The timing of this new book couldn't be more perfect..Thank You☺️
Yessssssss, REMARKABLE Marianne, thank YOU!
Marianne, thanks for putting into words what I have come to realize over these years in my 60’s. While I’m still very active I have suffered some set backs in illness that I have rolled with quite peacefully. There are times though where I am feeling well but am just as content to sit and reflect thanks to being at peace with who I am and where I’ve been in life. God Bless and thank you for sharing such wonderful insight.
I often write about this. When I thought I was entering retirement, it became re(fire)ment. Emerging later in life anew or in an expanded version of your consciousness is worth the applause for courage and empowerment.
You speak to my heart and I will be ordering this book as soon as possible.Thank you!
Getting older naturally is the change to the in-going path.
But it doesn't mean we stop thinking speaking and action that spreads love into the world.
Doing still happens and as some of us age we develop a depth and a wisdom from the suffering.
I think of aging as wine, some get corked and others, like yourself, age beautifully.
Love and peace
Can we request it from our libraries?
of course!
You're speaking into my direct experience right now. I so appreciate that you actually have the energy and will to write anything right now Marianne. I literally can only go outside in nature to metabolize my midlife grief, be with my doggie, make art, listen to music, cry and sleep these days.
Believe me, I hear you. Add today's politics to the list! But we have to counter the undertow. And by the way, the things you're doing are important too...
And if in 75+. ?
Go for it:) These days it's all the same
Oh....irs a re-boot of your earlier book on aging, except from the perspective of the 70s instead of the 50s. I get it now. 💟
OMG, a new book? Great! 💟🌈💟
@Marianne, I hope you are in touch with Chip Conley from the Modern Elders Academy. You would be such an amazing guest teacher at one of his two campuses (Santa Fe/Baja).
Thank you. I'm doing his podcast soon.