I'm 80
Shortly after my 80th birthday last February, I started “field testing” the statement “I’m 80”. I did so out of a curiosity catalyzed by...
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OWLcourage
a blog invested in hope and creative possibility
- Sep 8
- 6 min
Gooseberries
A gooseberry is defined as “a round edible yellowish-green or reddish berry with a thin translucent hairy skin.” Just reading this...
- Aug 28
- 5 min
CR Packaging
“Child-resistant packaging or CR packaging is special packaging used to reduce the risk of children ingesting hazardous materials. This...
- Aug 19
- 5 min
Impermanence
The waves were large and loud today as I approached the beach where I walk most mornings. To actually get to the shoreline, I leave a...
- Aug 13
- 5 min
Dust the Pheasant
The indicator of a good family reunion is the satisfaction and positive feelings the participants experience as they head back to their...
- Aug 4
- 4 min
Family Reunion
In a few hours I will board a plane to fly due East to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There I will join a gathering of my living siblings and...
- Jul 30
- 5 min
Emergence
I continue to chronicle the curious, even fascinating lessons learned in my move from Ohio to the Pacific Ocean. As I have noted before,...
- Jul 22
- 4 min
Right Answers
It’s hard to find a group experience where some human in the situation doesn’t declare that they have the right answer, a field of...
- Jul 14
- 6 min
Smart
I remember the day I decided to “Stay Smart”. It was a firm decision but also a dreaded and frightful one. I think I was either in 7th...
- Jul 8
- 5 min
Help
Nothing like moving highlights the need for the help of others. And I was blessed with an abundant portion. Both family (which included...
- Jul 1
- 5 min
Moved
I posted a blog on March 26, 2023 titled “Moving” where I shared some reflections on my decision to move from Johnstown, Ohio to the...
- May 27
- 1 min
Birdsong
Time for poetry to add to the conversation... OWLcourage Community Members are invited to join in the discussion on this blog using the...
- May 9
- 6 min
Autonomy
The challenges of the move I am in the middle of and the lessons learned are such a flood of energy fields emergent and encountered that...
- Apr 16
- 6 min
dystopian distress
One of my favorite poets is e. e. cummings. I spent a few years absorbing everything I could find of his work, and credit him with...
- Apr 2
- 4 min
Intentionality
Though I had published a good deal during my academic career, until I was 50, I hadn’t written a book, and more specifically, a book in...
- Mar 26
- 5 min
Moving
During the last few weeks, I have been reflecting on a range of topics I wanted to write about for this blog. Slowly, I realized that my...
- Mar 19
- 4 min
Advantage
The concept of “advantage” is one of the trickiest of ideas, and can, I believe, often reveal to us our intellectual laziness. The...
- Mar 12
- 5 min
Decline/Adapt
The least troublesome definition of “decline” I could locate reads as follows: “become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease (usually of...
- Feb 28
- 4 min
Role Re-Visioning
We humans organize our individual and communal biographies using an “invented” device called “roles”. In the US, all cultures and...
- Feb 20
- 4 min
Race : White
My decision to spend my late adolescent and early adult years in a convent had a long list of consequences, some more troublesome than...
- Feb 14
- 5 min
Elderhood
An early pause for exploration in my journey toward Wisdom Work was catalyzed by my curiosity about the words we use in our society to...
- Feb 5
- 5 min
Wisdom Work....Continuing the Search
My conceptualization of “Wisdom Work” did not, like Athena (the Goddess of Wisdom) spring fully armored out of Zeus’s head. I had to work...
- Jan 28
- 6 min
Whoops!
I was busy relegating 2022 to the dustbin of history with a clear excess of pleasure. My focus was on the emergence of 2023. Enough with...
- Jan 20
- 5 min
Tested Positive
Wow! I actually tested positive! I stared at the pink stripe and the blue stripe, solid and obvious. I had Covid-19. I could sense...
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Wisdom Work 1.0
OWLcourage as an idea had been marinating for over five years, before culminating in my first posting on January 13, 2022. My original...
- Dec 31, 2022
- 2 min
R.I.P. 2022
I have yet to find anyone anywhere lamenting the passing of the year 2022. Even the people working to pretend we are going to have...
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
Holiday Reflections
I had an OWLcourage post prepared and shelved it for now. It seemed wise to take a moment to honor this time of year. Holidays of...
- Dec 7, 2022
- 4 min
Sparkle Report
I am committed to the attentive search for Sparkles, wherever and however I can find them. I also think we need to report the Sparkles we...
- Nov 28, 2022
- 6 min
Shadow Projection 1.0
I believe that human conflict can be an opportunity for personal transformation and communal enrichment. I do know that this is a bridge...
- Nov 22, 2022
- 4 min
Mansplaining
I recently had the pleasure of learning yet again from one of my favorite teachers, seventeen-year-old Grady, my oldest grandson. Grady...
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