Category: Aging
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When the Tide of Grief Surges
Loss resides within the landscape of life. Loss is that part of the lifecycle through which we each recognize our mortality while simultaneously acknowledging that a person who was in the center of our lives is no longer present in our day-to-day world. One of the most difficult things that I have experienced is having…
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Pushing Back the Twilight
It is 8:29 PM on Monday evening. Twilight setting in, the day turning to the darkening sky and eliciting thoughts about this day’s lessons. I am watching, for the second time, the Netflix series, “The Crown”. In Season 3, episode 7, Philip Windsor Mountbatten, His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of…
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Unintended Transitions
Safe Harbor Pathways was created to explore life transitions. Having experienced many obvious life transitions, including career, family, disability and aging transitions, I am now realizing that transitions occur when they are unintended or when they are unexpected. I am referring to the transitions that we experience within our families as parents become grandparents and…
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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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