“Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes”
Where Do You Want/Need to Be?
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY,
10 Life Lessons for Women
In Second Adulthood
Second Adulthood is all about change…the changes that befall us and those we generate. The first without the second creates a miasma of disappointment. The second, if it doesn’t incorporate the first, is frustrating and discouraging…
From “INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES – Women in Second Adulthood – a book about What Matters, What Works, What’s Next”
“Our strength and our anima stem in good part…from thinking about what it means to be a woman, here, now, in this culture, and in our imagined future. Our tribe is the tribe of woman.” — Natalie Angier, “Woman: An Intimate Geography”
From “INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES – Women in Second Adulthood – a book about What Matters, What Works, What’s Next”
“Age 3: She looks at herself and sees a queen. Age 8: She looks at herself and sees Cinderella. Age15: She looks at herself and sees an Ugly Sister and says, “Mom I can’t go to school looking like this!” Age 20: She looks at herself and sees “too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too […]
From “INVENTING THE REST OF OUR LIVES – Women in Second Adulthood – a book about What Matters, What Works, What’s Next”
“As we zero in on what really matters in our lives now, we become better able to recognize — and make peace with circumstances we cannot change and we become more experienced in taking charge of those we can and want to change.” — Suzanne Braun Levine
“CHANGE” IS WHERE THE ACTION IS
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The Old Question: “If not now, when?” certainly applies to the insights and wisdom we gain as we enter second adulthood. 50 Is the New Fifty is our rallying call for Change! On the next “Feisty Side of Fifty Radio Program,” we’re having a conversation about change. In second adulthood women learn that change is […]
The Place of Poetry in My Life – The Voices You Recognize as Your Own
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This is National Poetry Month, an opportunity for all of us to consider the place of poetry in our lives. When I first began to read poetry, I was in those years when my feelings were confused and confusing, and I felt I was under water. I found that poetry validated those feelings, or at least that confusion. The big themes were loss, longing, loneliness, and Love (yes, with a capital L).
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ABOUT THE BIG SHIFT As the first of 78 million baby boomers turn 65 this year, the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society. But in a game-changing new book – The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife – Civic Ventures […]
A STORY FROM “THE BIG SHIFT”
Marc Freedman, Founder & CEO
Civic Ventures, THE BIG SHIFT: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
What is so special about Marc Freedman’s new book, THE BIG SHIFT is that it shares a vision for a new stage of life that will be rich and full for both the people entering their fifties and sixties and the society at large.
It also shares stories of people who have entered that Encore stage. I always think one story is worth a thousand words. Here is Anne Nolan’s from THE BIG SHIFT…