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David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Reports from the Slow Lane

Making Solitude Out of Loneliness

Making Solitude Out of Loneliness

June 23, 2017 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Solitude has become an everyday thing. It is my way of staying true to the one within me. My new world of social relations is enriched by the presence of this one. I am alive as never before.

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Integrity

May 12, 2017 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Integrity, that mysterious navigational tool, is my hope of becoming fully what I am capable of being. It hurts trying to live up to it, and it hurts even more living without it.

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Independence

March 22, 2017 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

As a disabled person who has kept a semblance of independence, while dealing with utter physical dependence. Losing my independence, and becoming reliant on others, has paradoxically shown me what independence really is. It isn’t what I’ve been taught. In fact, it doesn’t rest upon any physical condition at all.

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“Not-Knowing” Wisdom

January 17, 2017 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Magic dwells in the spirits of those, most generally elders, who are savvy enough to know, that they know enough, to know, they don’t know very much.

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Only A Child

Only A Child

December 2, 2016 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

I have been on a long journey. I’ve been following an internal phenomenon I can’t name. I don’t know the how of such things, but the journey seems to be unfolding me.

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Grief and Praise

Grief and Praise

November 11, 2016 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Grief is opening me up to the real cost of life. The impermanence of everything, the fleeting moment, the embrace that always ends, these are the things I live for, cannot hold, and that make me grateful for my existence.

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Growing Older

Growing Older

October 3, 2016 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

Growing older is nightmarish, but it also provides glimpses of how heaven is right here within reach. I think these glimpses, which reside in the failing sight of the old, and the disabled, are precious, and should be a regular part of our collective journey into mystery.

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Dispensability

August 24, 2016 | David Goff, ChangingAging Contributor

As I reflect upon the improbability of my ripening, I often turn with delight and inspiration to the life and death of Nelson Mandela. Mandela taught us that giving the self, once it has ripened, is elder wisdom, and the apotheosis of maturation.

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