Elderhood

I have often written about vulnerability in the past. Every year at this time it comes to the surface again. I see how older people… Read More »Vulnerability

Russell Brand interviews Carlo Rovelli (theoretical physicist) on the nature of reality. It seems apt for our understanding of, amongst other things, people living with… Read More »Reality

According to Stina Hanson, ‘we come into being as a response to a call from the other’. I find this is an incredibly beautiful quote.… Read More »Being Called

Older people and Well-being “A large body of empirical and theoretical research, however, supports the idea that negative changes increase in later adulthood and old… Read More »Well-being

In the process of exploring the narratives of older people living in Hangberg (a marginalised shing community above the harbour in Hout Bay, Cape Town)… Read More »Resilience

Defiant resilience “The life span approach proceeds from the understanding that development at all ages (including old age) is a ratio of gains and losses”… Read More »Defiant Resilience

The fluidity of time. At this strange time in our lives, time seems to have become more uid than ever before. Almost like when one… Read More »Getting Old

The full moon slowly appears, following her own magnificent glow. The mountain is edged blue in the brilliant reflection. A soft rain drizzles on the… Read More »The Full Moon