Think of the melancholy you get from listening to the song sung by Joan Baez, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? “Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing...” I think that it is what many of us feel when we think…
“Looks like he’s having a midlife crisis…,” they mutter amongst themselves when a man buys his dream Corvette or changes his hairstyle after 25 years. Family and friends seem to consider every change made by a 45 or 50…
As we move through midlife, we become more aware of how well or how poorly we have prepared for that stage in life where we have more choices financially. If you went through a divorce, then you likely took a hit in the finances. The later…
February 12, 2012 • Posted under: Mind, Lifestyle
Untimely. Unplanned. Whitney Houston’s death could be characterized by such descriptors. Of course, I could say the same about many people, including family members. Not many of us have a ‘planned exit’ so I suppose it brings to the fore the broader question of what are we doing with the time we are given. The great wizard, Gandalf, said something very much like this in…