Category: Self-Knowledge

On the Meaning of Self-Appreciation

I don’t think I imme­di­ate­ly real­ized the can of worms I was open­ing for myself in my last post, On Appre­ci­a­tion, includ­ing the con­ver­sa­tion with Joe McCarthy in the com­ments. I love Joe’s per­spec­tives and chal­lenges. In this case, how­ev­er, the real trou­ble began as ques­tion after ques­tion came for­ward for me inter­nal­ly. How is… Con­tin­ue read­ing On the Mean­ing of Self-Appreciation

The Gifts of Age: Part 2

What­ev­er we believe to be our gifts of age, it seems impos­si­ble to con­clude any­thing but that they derive from expe­ri­ence. This is true not only for the gifts men­tioned in Part I — free­dom from mak­ing judg­ments, inner con­fi­dence, accep­tance and fruition — but for so many oth­ers unmen­tioned so far, such as wis­dom,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Gifts of Age: Part 2

The Gifts of Age: Part 1

I asked Dan Oestre­ich and Deb Call to join with me (I’m Dick Richards) in cre­at­ing a post about “the gifts of age” because it seemed that we were each plow­ing that field in our indi­vid­ual blogs. So this is a col­lab­o­ra­tive effort and it has been my priv­i­lege to put our thoughts togeth­er and… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Gifts of Age: Part 1