Last Quarter

  • Seniorsisu and sex

    ‘Sisusex’, not a bad name for product designed to aid elderly people with their love lives. But who am I kidding? Seniors are pretty good at loving. So their love lives are often fine. (Maybe a discussion of senior divorce at another date.) But senior sex is another whole kettle of wax or ball of…

  • Christmas

    In this season I am reminded of the teachings of Love by Jesus of Nazareth; his emphasis on forgiveness and sharing. When I listen to the hymns and carols, however, I become befuddled. In this nation that struggled hard to create government from the bottom up; from the consent of the governed; in the shared…

  • Learning From Adolescents

    An open letter to my son Being here with Wolfie brought back a memory of when you and I were riding in the car one day. Your mom was off at medical school. You were about 11 and you were giving me sass about something; I don’t remember what. No biggie; but I turned to…

  • Love and Seniorsisu

    A while ago I penned a series of small poems with the working title Thirty Ages of Love. Thirty poems, each reflecting a flavor of love that exists at a particular time of life. The first, called New, goes I opened my eyesAnd saw your faceYour smile was the skyI took a whole dayTo reach…

  • Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

    When we tell ourselves that things should be a certain way we help ourselves and handicap ourselves in the same moment. If we envision that it should be a certain way, then we have a goal to strive for. We have a yardstick to measure our efforts. We have a motivator to keep us working…

  • The Seniorsisu section

    This section is dedicated to those times when people in their last quarter must dig deep to carry on. The struggles can be small, from putting on your pants in the morning to cuddling your honey in the sleepless wee hours of the morning. Until you reach the last quarter you don’t realize that these…

  • Meditation

    Meditation It’s funny how, depending on where you are sitting, a positive can become a negative. In and as kids we cherish curiosity. It is the sharpest tool for learning. And it is always ‘looking around’. (That is not so much ‘drifting’ as it is ‘sensual appetite’. But we learn that it is useful to…

  • Senior sisu

    Views from the last quarter of the game What is sisu? It is a Finnish term to describe that moment when you must dig deep to carry on. It is often triggered by a challenge. How to apply senior sisu in order to survive the last quarter Senior sisu and pain Senior sisu and disappointment…

  • Making money

    Begin churning the question: “Make money for whom?” when people automatically state that the purpose of a business is to “make money”. How do we change the paradigm to get people to see the purpose of business as “making a good product, making good work for people, and making a community”?

  • Love Is Something You Do

     I found out/decided long ago that love is something you *do*. It’s an activity, a calling even. Sure, there is that great feeling of being filled with love; and there is the nourishment of feeling other people love me. But most of all love is what I do with all other people. I can’t claim…