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ThrowForward Thursday 113: Rethink and Unlearn Your Life in an Aging World
If you are going to live a LOT longer than you think, it needs to change a lot of your life choices and goals. If you might be married...
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graeme
- Jul 28
- 1 min
ThrowForward Thursday 112: The Age of Grandparents
One of the biggest societal implications of people living longer is that the ratio of grandparents to grandchildren is now higher than...
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graeme
- Jan 5
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 85: Giving Lonely People The Choice to Chat
In 2021, a Dutch supermarket chain, Jumbo, created a special checkout line - it was designed to be slower and give people the opportunity...
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graeme
- Nov 24, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 79: Smart Homes for Seniors
Sometime very soon, we need to change our view of what "old age" looks like, and especially change what type of facilities we think older...
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graeme
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Throwforward Thursday 78: Grandparents of the Future
Imagine a future where grandparents are younger (or at least appear younger because they're healthier and living longer), where they get...
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graeme
- Jul 3, 2020
- 4 min
COVID REFLECTIONS: A hundred days of Lockdown
In March, the acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri wrote a letter to fellow Europeans “from your future”, describing experiences...
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graeme
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 67: Mindfulness
I had a webinar conversation with good friend and mindfulness expert, Helen Nicholson this afternoon. It was exactly what I needed. 1...
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graeme
- May 25, 2020
- 1 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 60:
I think the people who are struggling the most at the moment are parents of school-going children. There is just so much uncertainty...
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graeme
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 59: Hard choices
We all have difficult choices lying ahead of us in the next few days and weeks. Do I go back to work or not? Do I send the kids to school...
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graeme
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 57: Birthday
It’s my youngest daughter’s birthday tomorrow. She turns 15. She is a teenager with special needs (autism), and has struggled this whole...
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graeme
- May 17, 2020
- 2 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 52: World Cure NF Day
Some families have been dealing with the impact of a deadly disease on their lives for many years. I met one such family a number of...
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graeme
- May 10, 2020
- 1 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 45: Happy Mother’s Day.
To all the mothers and all those who are mothering: thank you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. To those who’s best efforts don’t...
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graeme
- May 9, 2020
- 2 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 44: Rhythms and Rituals
Rhythms and Rituals are necessary
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graeme
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
LOCKDOWN REFLECTIONS DAY 42: Take photos
In our kitchen at home we have a digital photo frame. 24/7 it scrolls through hundreds of pictures of our family, going back decades. As...
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graeme
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
Lockdown Reflections Day 39: Thank God for Rachel
Rachel Held Evans passed away a year ago today. After a very short illness, this young mother of two small children, and wife to Dan,...
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graeme
- Apr 23, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Reflections Day 28
Don't fight the Covid-19 riptide. Thanks, Mandy Collins.
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graeme
- Apr 19, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Reflections Day 24
I have been hearing from many parents with school aged children that they are struggling with home schooling. So much so, that I recorded...
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graeme
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min
Lockdown Reflections Day 22
I am truly grateful that I really like the people I love - especially my immediate family with whom I am in lockdown. I believe that...
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graeme
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
A Day in my Life
A day in my life... not necessarily that novel for me to work from home, be virtual and do webinars. It’s nice that now so many other...
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