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Here's a snippet from a recent thread on our Facebook page, "Masterminding Integral Ageing". Albert Klamt is a frequent poster there and here he is responding to another regular, Ian Blair Hamilton, who has asked him, Albert, about about choosing one goal for himself. I have somewhat tortured Facebook's format for legibility. And besides the discussion, you'll meet a great new word to add to your vocabulary!  Ian Blair Hamilton If you had to choose one goal what would it be?   Albert Klamt There is no one goal.  https://www.facebook.com/albert.klamt/posts/10154919458601994?pnref=story Ian Blair Hamilton Yes, but just supposing....    Albert Klamt Goals are subsets of the general flexflow. Like passing an examination.... Life in general is adventure for me. And the final purpose might never be clear enough. As a veteran like Jung knew. what he said [...]

But if you don't know what an "Alternate Ageist" is, how will you know if you meet one, let alone "engage" one? With the administration of #45 now 100 days in office, alternate facts, alternate truths, alternate realities, etc. are in vogue - so I'm using "Alternate Ageist" in that quasi-political context to mean someone who denies or is ignorant of the existence of Ageism itself. That denial or ignorance can be compounded by not including ourselves in that benighted group - as the 10 point list below may demonstrate. Simply put, how many of these points have we each believed to be true...or worse, reasonable? Do we know what to say when confronted with these seemingly "truthy" (thank you, Stephen Colbert!) remarks we may hear from those around us. Recently that [...]

“Act your Age”   As unlikely as it appears, both the Scientific American and Alcoholics Anonymous were important moments in my adaptation to learning to act my age.  But if you are short of time or impatient, you can jump below to the final short paragraphs at “Sex is better than ever! Then you can decide whether you’d like to back up and find out how I got to that point.   This is not me but it expresses my confusion. What did it mean to me as a child to hear, “Act your age!”   I don’t think my mother ever explained that to me.  But however confusing, I took it to mean that somehow I should be acting older than I actually was.  This at first made no [...]