by Barry Phegan | Dec 1, 2021 | Aging, Living Life
Getting closer to the end of life focuses attention on doing more of what feels good. My September 2019 blog listed what makes me happy. Lately, I’m deliberately doing more of three top items — then a new one surprised me. Children Being with, or just watching...
by Barry Phegan | Nov 15, 2021 | Aging, Social comment
Over 70 years ago, as a primary school child in Sydney, I enjoyed sticking transfers — what we in the United States call a temporary tattoo — to the back of my hand. These were usually comic book characters or animals. We’d show them to friends and go “Oooh”...
by Barry Phegan | Nov 1, 2021 | Aging, Social comment
Freedom We toss the word around as if we know what it means. Each user has a meaning in mind, while listeners might have another. But I see a mounting impatience with cries for freedom intended to deflect our attention from antisocial behavior more accurately...
by Barry Phegan | Oct 15, 2021 | Aging, Social comment
My mother once recounted a story from my childhood. Just three or four years old, I had come across a dead bird, probably a sparrow, in our front yard. After examining it with earnest concern, I announced, “It’s lost all its interest.” She found that amusingly...
by Barry Phegan | Oct 3, 2021 | Aging, Social comment
Swimming Swimming in the mornings is a favorite ‘hands busy, mind free’ time. As my body swims my brain drifts, open to what floats in. Today, dying showed up. I was playing a mental game, stepping into the shoes of someone way outside my understanding (Covid...
by Barry Phegan | Sep 15, 2021 | Aging, Social comment
Some professional writers advise beginners to write about things they know. As a beginning writer, that advice got me thinking. Here’s what I know about climate change, human nature, and my job as a senior. Clocks Go Forward Fact. There is no winding back the...
