Imagine the thrill of reading the following editorial in the
Chicago Tribune’s New Year’s Day
edition:
“Boomers, remember your
commitment. There's still time to save the world.”
Talk about a way to start 2019. It’s almost as if the
editors follow my blog, especially given this particular sentence:
“Find a purpose beyond yourself.”
On the other hand, maybe they read about the
summer workshop I offered at The Newberry Library in Chicago: “The Purpose of Aging:
Aging with Purpose.”
Here’s that description, slightly amended to reflect how that workshop and the response to it inspired my upcoming series of lectures and forthcoming book:
The news is no longer
new: The Boomer Generation—those between the ages of 54 and 72—has changed the
way we age. Not only are Boomers living longer than any previous generation,
but are doing so in better health and more productively.
This longevity
bonus—or “Gift of Years,” as author Joan Chittister calls it—may even benefit
those of us born before the Boomers, and certainly after.
In Carol’s lectures,
workshops, and forthcoming book, she explores how we might use our gift of age
with more intention, purpose, and meaning. In the process, she offers specific
practices to help us create and manage this most challenging and rewarding life
transition.
And part of what makes it both challenging and rewarding,
in my humble opinion, is the choice to age with purpose. But how do find our purpose as we continue aging? And how does that particular purpose reward us?
Questions worth considering, eh?
Maybe the Trib piece could help answer them. Start here, with the opening paragraphs:
Maybe the Trib piece could help answer them. Start here, with the opening paragraphs:
What’s next, baby
boomers? You started turning 65 in 2011. Millions of you will continue to cross
that threshold until 2030.
In your long-ago
brash youth, you fashioned yourselves as wild-haired but deeply committed
revolutionaries, America’s best hope to end poverty, prejudice and injustice.
The times, they were a-changin’, for the better.
Sorry to say, you
fell short in every category. You didn’t outperform the Greatest Generation
(what’s greater than greatest?), which extinguished the Axis threat and created
the modern world.
Now you’re signing up
for Medicare and Social Security — rites of passage that make many of you
cringe.
And to continue—which I highly recommend—click here:
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