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As a yoga teacher with a passion for working with elders, I see their innate preference for BEING/DOING.
I have always known that my mission is to work to change our culture's attitude toward aging and to help redesign how elders live. My ideas are a primitive version of Dr. Bill's Green Houses, so when I read "What Are Old People For?" I found nirvana.
I would like to stay connected with others who are working toward these goals. The first page of my new website, www.sagesonline.org went up last month, and this month I plan to start a blog.
Where can I learn more about becoming a Green House Guide?
This is fabulous. Together we can change the world.
Joanna Brandt, Founder
SAGES
“You Say You Want a Revolution” is a mosaic of original ideas, indelible images from the 60s and 70s, and classic multidisciplinary literature. We are studying the relationship between humanities and sciences and the intersection of individual biographies and history. Boomers will define aging with their vast numbers, but more importantly with a spirit of revolution and social conscience. We reviewed the developmental phases of the brain and learned how changes in brain function enable trait transformation. This transformation will manifest in meaningful contributions and creative solutions to societal challenges as boomers become elders.
A letter from the publisher of TIME Magazine provides interesting context for “The Inheritor.” http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,843144,00.html# TIME ran more than 150 stories about young boomers in the three years prior to naming them 1966 “Man of the Year.”
So I really enjoyed Dr. Thomas's lecture and just wanted to comment about it. What I took from him is that the boomers are going to change the world as they have done in the past. In order to understand your self you need to understand your history and what is going on in your life. I think that this is very true. I think that what has happened in the past can help make sense of the present. Its hard to predict the future, but for us, for our generation the future lies ahead of us with the baby boomers. The baby boomers are making our future they are our future. Understanding their wants and needs will see who will have power as we get older. We are the echo generation and our parents will be laying the path of the changes to come.
This class having only been a few is a great class. I think that learning about the greatest generation ever will help my generation understand what has shaped us and help us with our future. I enjoy learning about what my parents and millions others went through and what their life was like.
From the article, "The Inheritor", in the Time it says, "In fact, the young today are deeply involved in a competitive struggle for high grades, the college of their choice, a good graduate school, a satisfactory job--or, if need be, for survival in Viet Nam."
Our parents are not very different from us. They started their life just like we like to start ours. We want all the same things that they wanted and they made it possible for us to want those things! When your parents say they have been there and done that they really have. They are a lot smarter then some may think! We should be just as proud as our parents as they are us. We should be thanking them for being the change that they wanted to see. Our parents may understand more then we think!
Now it's our turn to be the change. The boomers will not go quietly into the the next stage of aging. They will demand war! We can make a difference offer their generation and others to come a life of fulfillment and meaning!
The boomers have made an impact. In their large numbers they will not stop making an impact. The way these boomers are described in some of these articles are amazing to me. Words such as redefining, confident, man of the year, individualism. I think these words are so powerful ecspecially when talking about my parents. For a generation to be known for the changes they made and their will power, their independence, I wish I was apart of this generation. I try to think what life would be like with out them... and I guess there would be no me!
The Catonsville Nine File http://c9.mdch.org/index.cfm has interesting archives.
Here is a link to a statement describing the Catonsville Nine action. http://c9.mdch.org/artifact.cfm?ID=DPCN003&PT=1 This leaflet was prepared by the Catonsville Defense Committee to help galvanize the protest against Vietnam and the draft.
Thank you so much for today's lecture! I really enjoyed hearing and experiencing the film, music, and TV excerpts that gave me a more complete picture of how the Boomers grew up. I was thinking a lot about our generation and how to portray a similar perspective years from now... perhaps! I just finished reading two great books that I was reminded of today - Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs and The Lonely Patient by Michael Stein that really hit home with me, I highly recommend them when talking about societal influences and emotions on lifestyle, no matter what a population's age.
Thanks for your lecture.I really did not know what are boomers and what they did. But at least I have some idea now. I know the baby boomers were the first group to be raised with televisions in the home, and television has been identified as the institution that solidified the sense of generational identity more than any other. Starting in the 1950s, people in diverse geographic locations could watch the same shows, listen to the same news, and laugh at the same jokes. so, thank you
So I don't know about anyone else, but I came home and asked my dad and mom a lot of questions about what it was like when they were my age! Also got to talk to my moms husband about what it was like being born right before the boomers by a year. I asked about the protests and where they were when vietnam was going on. I got to hear about everything that was talked about in the last couple of classes. Its all there. This is what happened when my parents were growing up. They listen to all the songs to each lyric that was sung. This generation is the greatest generation. There are 78 million of them. They didn't settle. They spoke out they saw the world they wanted to live in and they went out to make that happen. Our parents are not very different from us. They smoke and drank and hung out with their friends. They created Woodstock for crying out loud! I think this is so interesting so great. This generation came into the world making change, they are not going to go quietly. I think that this is so interesting. How the boomers have shaped my own life. How music has become so powerful. You have to know history to understand your life.
Music connects us all. No matter what your race, ethnicity, or sex people can all connect to a song. Songs all have meaning in our lives. It is fun to sing out loud. Depending on the mood I am in depends on the song or type of music I want to listen to. We can connect through music.
I have never been so excited to tell my mom what I was learning about in class about the sociological imagination and diachronic vision and trait transformation. I was excited to tell her about the music and radio and everything we have been learning.
This is an extraordinary class!
Talking about cortisol and saliva tests - I had my adrenals tested through the canaryclub.org and found out my adrenals weren't as tired as I had feared. It had me look at my nutrition as a possible source of fatigue. I am now taking suppliment for my adrenal glands and have increased exercise and dramatically limited sugar and processed foods. My energy has recovered and I am feeling much like my old self. Testing was a huge help to truly identify where the problem lay.
Where is this country going? What will the future bring for us all? We need leadership.
Thoughts on the three “threads” as they relate to current societal problems.
We discussed standardization and scientific management of industry during the early 1900s and the zeitgeist which transcended and transformed advertising, education, parenting and health care. If we understand the structure of our society and problems of individuals, it will enable us to use sociological imagination and common sense to find solutions to societal problems. This model can be applied to health and utilization of health care. Individuals cannot afford the escalating cost of care and society cannot sustain the current mode of over-consumption and its associated costs. The increasing demand for health care services by aging Boomers will create a shift in intergenerational reciprocity. Boomers, the largest sector of our society, and health care providers need to collaborate to galvanize change. The character traits that led to civil activism in the 1960s will prevail as Boomers seek alternatives to the current structured industrialized care. This generation will not tolerate passive acceptance of the status quo.
I had just finished reading Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel The Fates of Human Societies when we heard the lecture on homesteading. There is an interesting contrast between homesteading and Diamond’s hypothesis that many of the attributes of complex human societies emerged only when dense populations were capable of accumulating food surpluses. When we discussed the Sociological Imagination, Dr. Thomas shared the paradigm that even though we have more labor saving technology than they did in the middle ages, we work more days per year. Many Americans work so hard that we strive for balance by living more simply. Homesteading looks like a very rewarding mode of ecologically sensitive living.