Category: Aging
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A Different Time and Place- “Decoration Day”
My daughter, Katie, called me this morning and we talked about our memories of holidays. She rembered that I had written some thoughts several years ago about my childhood and the very different way that holidays and Sundays were spent in mid-century Oklahoma. She asked me to add a couple of these stories to Safe…
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The Way of Visitors
I began living alone about 28 years ago. Just divorced and having moved to Dallas, I had to adjust to life within the landscapes of what I had previously experienced in life. I realized that I had to truly become friends with myself. It was during the first few years of living alone that, as…
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The Six “P’s”
Jeff, a close friend, and I are building a website for online resale. We have never done this before. In keeping with the mission of Safe Harbor Pathways, we are experiencing a transition to a new part of our life with which we have had no previous experience. Jeff has a lot of experience with…
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Retirement Boredom
When I fully retired from my 45+ year career with Micropac, I realized that I had to use the sudden “gift” of time in order to add challenge to my retired life. During the course of examining what interests I have that I actively pursue, I realized that I did not necessarily want to devote…
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The Thing About Loss…
When I started thinking about creating “Safe Harbor Pathways”, I felt compelled to write about life transitions. I have recently strayed away from the direct association with life transitions within my content with discussions regarding how families might use the Kitchen Table to talk about core values. While I have enjoyed my reveries about the…
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Kitchen Table Discussion… Servant Leadership
As parents and grandparents, we strive to impart to our kids and grands ways in which they can grow as strong responsible citizens. I have, in a previous post, touched on the topic of “trust”. I will, in future posts, discuss discuss “trust” in its many forms including the role trust plays in treaching our…
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The Kitchen Table Discussions
In my last essay, I posited that our kids and grandkids will inherit a chaotic world. As parents and grandparents, we have a responsibility to prepare them for not only surviving and living in a world that is very different from the world in which we were raised, but helping them to become leaders in…
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Kitchen Table Discussions for our Kids and Grandkids- Trust and Servant Leadership
In my previous essay, “Kids and Core Values” (Feb. 23) I presented the challenge facing our children as they grow into adulthood in the coming decades in a chaotic world. I discussed two key core values that they need to understand and implement as guideposts in order to provide sustainable leadership in the world that…
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Kids and Core Values
I am a member of the “Boomer” generation. We were raised in an era when America was changing from an agrarian based culture to an industrial culture where innovation drove the life-styles for most Amercans. The shifting of agrarian and industrial gears during and after WWII brought the United States into a leadership position in…
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Interesting Morning…so far…
This morning, I awakened after a restless night. As I settled into my living room morning routine, I checked my email and saw a piece that steered me to YouTube to watch a couple of in-depth videos from our country’ s history… the Siege and Battle of the Bastogne. You might be wondering how that…
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