Life in Transition

I love this definition of wisdom. Any comments?

I believe being clear about what is meaningful to us and how are we contributing to others will keep us fully alive and vibrant into ripe old age. Who are your elder heroes and inspire you into this next stage of life? http://www.huffingtonpost.com//old-age-exceptional-excepti

As we journey from adult to elder, from growing our life for the past 30 to 40 years to now harvesting its bounty, what are we going to do with the wonderful fruits of our life: leave them on the ground, pick them up and give them to someone who will take it, and grow to their fullest potential, or make "pies" with them and create something new to give to many? Can you identify them? Live in the question.

Here is a picture of a beautiful older woman and yet not one we would normally see anywhere in any media as a representation of aging well. How do you relate to aging? Do you have someone that you see as an elder in your life? Do you see yourself becoming an elder? What do you think it would take to become one?

Question: As we transition from adulthood to elderhood, it is time to look in the mirror and really "see" the person reflecting back us. Are we accepting what it is reflecting? Is there anything that it is now time we "heard" what has been "whispered" in our ears or at times may have been screaming but have become "deaf" to its message?