by Lillian Ireland There’s a dull ache from not knowing when these COVID days will end. I wake up each day from dreams of how I feel suspended and trapped inside a sea of strange disbelief and grief. It’s like a fictional foreboding from which I want relief. It feels like a hammer has pummeled… Continue reading Stepping beyond uncertainty
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Hope amid these times is for chances to help decide what follows
This is the all-time challenge for our species. Will we show the wisdom to act with the guidance of science? Will we have the compassion to help those most impacted by the unavoidable global warming already happening? Will we have the intelligence to find new opportunities in transforming our sources of energy and the way… Continue reading Hope amid these times is for chances to help decide what follows
When I was a boy
by Diana Ellis When I was growing up, the utterance from my father of the phrase “when I was a boy…” usually at the dinner table, inevitably resulted in a combination of interest and eyeball-rolling, depending on how many times we had heard the story before. Now in my mid 70’s, this is one story… Continue reading When I was a boy
Upping the Elder Game
by Stan Hirst I admit I first entitled this post “Love in the Time of Covid19”, but then thought better of it. For one thing it lacked a certain impact; secondly, I was secretly afraid of a visitation from the ghost of Gabriel García Márquez. Then I tried “From elders to Elders” but the chintzy… Continue reading Upping the Elder Game
A time and place for Elder opinions
by Stan Hirst The Suzuki Elders trace their existence back to 1996 when a “Council of Elders” was established under the umbrella of the David Suzuki Foundation. The details of this are given elsewhere on this site. Some four years later we reinvented ourselves as the Suzuki Elders, and duly penned the Elders’ Declaration as… Continue reading A time and place for Elder opinions
Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?
by Jordan Pennells Life pits the order and intricacy of biology against the ceaseless chaos of physics. The second law of thermodynamics, or the thermodynamic arrow of time, states that any natural system will always tend towards increasing disorder. Biological ageing is no different, making death inevitable. However, one of the least-addressed questions of ageing… Continue reading Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?
In Memoriam | Peggy Louise Olive
Peggy Louise Olive died on December 10th in Victoria, B.C., after being diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Born in Montreal in 1948, Peggy became a radiation biologist after fretting during her teen years about the Cold War and what she saw as inevitable nuclear annihilation. Her training instead led to a career… Continue reading In Memoriam | Peggy Louise Olive
Season’s Greetings 2017
The Elders’ Declaration
by Stan Hirst Some things are worth repeating. Like walking the Lynn Creek canyon on the North Shore in early winter when the grey rain keeps everybody else indoors. Like watching the flocks of band-tailed pigeons make their annual brief sojourn to my neighbourhood to guzzle whatever they can find in the greenbelt trees. Like… Continue reading The Elders’ Declaration
The Silence of Intergenerational Communication
by Graham Rawlings We are Elders and, as such, we are categorized either as Baby Boomers (52 -70) or Pre-Baby Boomers (70 – ??). We are not Millenials or Generation Y (19 – 35) or post- Millenials or Generation X (35 – 52) unless we are flying under false colours. Pre-Baby Boomers are also referred… Continue reading The Silence of Intergenerational Communication