Category: The Senior Side of Life

All about living the third stage of life which lies between 70 and 100

KICKING THE TIRES OF AUGUST 15, 2019

S R Janssen

Remembering

Lois Janssen nee Aldinger born August 10, 1924

My Aunt Lois

One of my best friends in childhood. She loved to laugh, and she taught me to appreciate classic paintings. It’s been a while since I have thought of you, but today, on your birthday, my mind is flooded with warm and happy memories.

KICKING THE TIRES OF AUGUST 14 2019

S R Janssen
Image is a teeter-totter with an elephant sitting on the ground end, with two rats on the opposite end. Metaphor of the weight of old habits of thought and attitude
The ground level of negative thinking

At a Loss for Words

What a fun metaphor – the above sketch. Could it be adapted into a coat of arms?? The elephant rampant on his ass, and the rats unable to budge their end of the teeter totter. This is a perfect metaphor of my exercise in changing my life through the deliberate practice of imagination. The elephant is decades of accumulated thoughts and feelings and habits. The rats are my focused attentions to thoughts, feelings and habits that feel good.

Looks Bad But Not Hopeless

Everybody know there is only one way to eat and elephant. One bite at a time. So there is hope. The elephant is a single mass, but if I keep adding rats daily, there will be enough rats to overwhelm the elephant.