Category: Art of Aging

Explore how aging can be an exciting crossroads where we stop exercising merely to stay healthy and begin training deliberately for the life we still want to live.

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We all experience aging. But when we actively participate in the aging process, we can see capacity that may have been overlooked. When you recognize agency—the capacity to think, choose and act in alignment with your biology and what matters to you—you begin to influence and redirect your trajectory.

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It takes effort and focus to learn to separate a diagnosis from the story our mind creates from it. Consider the capacity you have to choose intentionally and act in ways that influence our life’s trajectory. At its core, agency is noticing what is happening, seeing clearly where your energy should go (what matters), and taking action. It requires more discernment—fluidity and sound judgement—than determination. That’s because nothing is static. We all age differently, and each day is different, especially after age 60.

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It takes years of mistakes to climb higher—lessons in the making—staying strong and committed in discomfort, trusting that the protracted process is working in your favor. Trouble is, building the necessary layers of insight and understanding that help us master life requires uncommon durability and longevity.

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My work as a wildlife biologist centered on habitat—evaluating and, when necessary, restoring wetlands, estuaries, salt marshes, forests, and prairies to ensure their health and integrity. The health of each habitat contributes upward to the overall wellness of the larger ecosystem: the entire community of living things. Your body is an ecosystem. The “habitats” that contribute to your personal biological ecosystem include your muscles, tendons, organs, nervous system, gut, and many others.

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In one of the harshest environments on Earth, the bowhead whale does not merely survive. The bowhead is now considered a model of longevity. Its slow metabolism, late maturity, and low reproductive rate reflect a different biological strategy—one that does not rush. It invests in durability. It builds systems that resist disease, adapt to stress, and repair damage over time.

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The prediction that is fed to us, we will get sicker, more chronic illness is inevitable. But this flawed projection rests on an assumption: that we will remain illiterate about our own biology. That we will stay dependent on a medical system bound by tradition and a for-profit business model. That we will be content to drift, disconnected from the intrinsic power of our bodies, coasting as passengers in our own lives—passive to the incredible force of our human agency…….Will we?

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It is possible to get better as you age. Transported while fly-fishing for smallmouth bass, after several hours, I looked up only to realize I couldn’t see a single member of my fishing club. Somehow, without noticing, I found myself standing waist-deep in the October waters of the Juniata River, alone. The others were cold, tired and done…..they had given up.

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