Regener8tion

Regener8tion has changed!

It is growing into a place to share stories and ideas

about

making an interesting life.

How do Creativity,

Curiosity,

Hidden Talents,

Meaning,

affect your quality of living?

What roles are played by

Intergenerational Connections and Planetary Sustainability.

Let’s share

and encourage each other on our journeys!

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Who Are You Behind the Masks?

Each day they entered with muffled greetings, their plastic shrouds rustling. There was an inevitable flurry of activity as they consulted dials and meters. Somewhere behind goggles I imagined I could see their eyes while anonymous hands checked the various tubes...

Bridges through time

Looking back over the last 5 months I see how much change there is, both within me and without. I used to say half-seriously that I am not a noun but a verb. Most of the nouns, the solid unchanging entities in my world, have become become dynamic and shifting. The...

HOPE LIES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE for us “old uns” tagging along

Some encouraging news – and I am encouraged by the creativity, resourcefulness and energy of young people. From drowning out horrible hashtags, RSVPing to harmful events, and donating to Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com, KPop fans - who may be too young...

Unacknowledged Grief, Here, Now

Unacknowledged Grief is…………….. everywhere On the news, lurking at the edges of webinars, in the different ways of connecting in these days of sheltering, I see and feel grief. Not just my own, but also that of others – many others. ...

In search of the truth in Media –

Like some of my friends, I have shared on FaceBook what I thought was real information - and been dismayed when I later found out it was false So, when I saw a webinar on "How to Track Misinformation" organized by The Womens March (womensmarch.com) and Media Matters...

The art of creeks

As Mark Nepo notes in his book “Drinking from the River of Light” The purpose of art in all its forms is to make life real, to remove everything that gets in the way, and to help us live. It is my delight to share this poem The Art of Creeks When the sun sets, the...

Why I collect plastic trash from the creeks

I love to walk the dogs in my new neighborhood. A creek flows just a block or so away. On my first visit I saw how this beautiful creek was filled with plastic trash. I saw this lovely white heron peck up a shiny piece of trash for food. I couldn't stop it...

Steps to a fork in the road

The past year presented me with a fork in the road on which I had been traveling for a long time. My choice was to continue to work in the field of Creative Aging, which I started almost by accident in the late 1970's, or to go in a new direction. I had spent the...

Untold Stories …..no longer!

A year or so ago I encountered young people, over and over again, who shared their sadness that by the time they wanted to explore their culture or family history, the story-bearers had gone. And I wanted to do something about it. I grew up 5000 miles away from my...