'tween years

It seems that I have always been a 'tween. I was between WWII and Korea. I was between the beat generation and the rock generation. I am between yesterday and tomorrow.

The meandering path of my life has been loud and chaotic at times. It has been peaceful and calm occasionally. Now it is a new between time for me. It is the time between growing older and growing old. I can assure you from LOTS of experiences that growing old is not for sissies.

I have chafed, laughed and moaned at the idea of enjoying my golden years. How do I mine the gold out of a time that can be filled with many valleys and few peaks. My sister Glenna says that all the saying about going downhill as we age is bunk... growing older is up-hill all the way. This means that aging with grace is not as important aging with tenacity.

It is now time for me to make some very important decisions. Decisions that have an impact on me now and in my future. While I loved Doris Day's song: "Que Sera Sera -- What ever will be will be", I also know that sometimes we have a direct impact on what will be and what we will become. Ram Das said "Be Here Now." That might work for the moment but in the long run, living is not a descrete sense of being but of becoming.

Well, if I am as old as I am how come I don't know the answers? The answer to that is that every good answer leads to more questions. Becoming is an unending process -- a process that is under our control during every stage of life -- even the dying process.

However, unless we wake up and recognize our own personal power during every stage of life and living, we might as well crawl under the covers and sleep or perhaps we are already experiencing "the long sleep." I now invite you to Awaken with me to experience awareness that no matter where we are, who we are, how old we are, how ill we are, how young we are -- we all have personal power to make choices. Even if the choice is as small as choosing to appreciate the next breath that we take, a choice is self-empowering. Live. Live. Live till you die is sage advice if you choose to be a sage of the new age.