Graceful Aging Blog
An Introduction
We Welcome Your Insights and Perspectives
Conversations that explore the deeper ideas, perspectives, and experiences of aging are the type we invite to our Graceful Aging blog. And the topics are endless. How has aging changed our perceptions and interactions with all the people we meet? What, if any, were our expectations of being this age when we were younger, and how have those expectations been met, or are different in our reality? Are you working because you need to, and what does your day look like? What does your body and mind feel like? Or are you taking care of grandchildren long after you thought childcare was done? Have you stretched your imagination and tried new things, new hobbies, new interests? Is it difficult to make friends? What kind of advice could you give for those 7 generations following us?
These topics are fascinating and eye-opening. The essays can be funny, serious, thoughtful, and thought-provoking, and always respectful. Our stories, complete in their richness, need to be told.
Please keep essays to 500 words or less. You don’t have to be a published author. You just need to want to share your experiences of your acquired wisdom. We do request that you set personal religious or political views aside. Please send completed essays or questions to our editor Lynda McCullough lynda.mcCullough@uchealth.org .
Lynda McCullough is a health educator with UCHealth’s Aspen Club, an organization that provides health education and related services to people 50 and older. She is the daughter of a physician and physical therapist, and she has long been interested in how we can find a sense of physical and emotional wellbeing in the modern world. She explored mental health and health careers and wrote on these subjects for various organizations before moving from Washington, DC, to Colorado and becoming a yoga teacher and educator.
Lynda is a runner, hiker, and yoga practitioner, and she loves to go on mountain adventures with her husband, climbing mountains and stringing up a hammock to relax while he fly fishes. Her other interests are music and studying the ways yoga affects the brain, nervous system, and mental health.