Fill Your September With Friendship
Yesterday, Thursday 31 August, I completed 18 interviews discussing the importance of friendship with a focus on older adults. This is a link to an article and the interview with Aston Avery on Gateway 97.8. I was interviewed alongside Jane Nelson, CEO of The Oddfellows. Fill your September with friendship I enjoyed the day, had […]
Having Fun
I learned about Type 2 Fun from Christine Sperber. These are the activities we only recognize as fun afterwards. They can be physically challenging such as mountain climbing or where there is a fear, perhaps of being laughed at. I do comedy improv classes and hadn’t realized this was Type 2 fun. I still get […]
Embracing the Future – life in 2038
Imagine you are still at school, considering whether, or not, to go to university and wondering how life will be like in 15 years. With the help of ChatGPT here is one view of how the future could be. Introduction In the year 2038, you find yourself at the exciting cusp of your 30s, living […]
Winter Reflection
Yesterday was the winter solstice and my plans are postponed. With a move of home, getting settled takes priority. But I plan my winter reflection and wonder if it is something to interest you too? I find the solstice a perfect time for reflection. In particular, at winter time, when nature slows down, I see […]
The Valuable Time of Maturity
With age, comes, for me, a greater interest in and appreciation of poetry. I hope you enjoy reflecting on this by Mario de Andrade I counted my years and realized that I have less time to live by, than I have lived so far. I have more past than future. I feel like that boy […]
Are you living your life?
I’m watching The Peripheral on Amazon Prime and one comment resonated – “If you knew you wouldn’t exist in 10 years would you change anything”. And then last night went to the cinema to see ‘Living’ with Bill Nighy a civil servant who finds out he has a terminal illness and makes significant changes. He […]
Half way through the year – Time for reflection
Back on 1st January you probably set some goals, how are you doing? We sometimes have good intentions for what we want to do – to get the promotion, learn a language, lose weight, sort out the clutter …. But we don’t always get things done Perhaps you needed to make the goals SMARTER? I’ve written […]
Closing My Second Vision Quest
Yesterday I closed my second Vision Quest. This time I closed it in our own wood. That made it special. A year ago, I completed my second Vision Quest. This is a Rite of Passage where you spend 4 days, and nights out in nature. A vision quest is a ceremony to facilitate change and […]
The Importance of Optimism
Hi, it’s Dr. Denise Taylor here for another one of my Tales from the Wood. Today I want to talk about why you need to be optimistic. And if you’re not now, maybe today you need to start. From the research I’ve been reading about, it can make so much difference. People who have negative […]
Is now the time for a life audit?
There are a number of transition points in where you leave one phase behind and embark on another – leaving school and getting a job; getting married and settling down – and the one as we enter our 60s. The difference now is you’ve got decades of experience behind you. At milestone age points, such […]
