On May 15th, 2020, we reached our one-year mark of living in Ajijic, Mexico. It has been an incredible year! The first six months were challenging as we adjusted and adapted, but we’ve now found our place of comfort, safety and joy. Then 2020 brought Covid-19 that shut down the world! The Turning of the Ages, with Pluto and Saturn, arrived with a fury, and a Great Pause came over the land. What a gentler and quieter time it’s been, even in Mexico, where the normally high noise level has abated and the village looks a bit like a ghost town. For such a social, Earth-based culture it’s rather sad to see, but La Gran Mamá evidently needed to put her children in a time out. Alex and I wonder if we didn’t have some form of covid infection ourselves in mid-January, as we were quite ill with some unnamed […]
Aging with Trickster Wisdom
BY LINDA JOY STONE Many of us find beauty in gnarly old trees, amongst overgrown forests and within nature’s oddities, but shudder at the wrinkles, barnacles and deformities human bodies develop with age. The Japanese have a jaunty term—wabi sabi—for the beauty of imperfection. In our rather adolescent culture, imperfection is seen as a flaw. However, striving to achieve some kind of perfection or perpetual youth can rob us of joy. I find the “anti-aging” movement a bit of a con job that feeds a vanity-motivated, death-fearing, multi-billion-dollar industry. Instead, consider “pro-aging my way” as a better description for a natural occurring process, and then choose wisely. Our bodies and our hearts know what to do if we listen and take care of them. Having a good sense of humor is a vital attribute in aging well and being able to appreciate the unpredictability of life. This is where we […]