Full of Years

If you value people who are older—and also your own aging—these entries will help you rejoice in the fullness of this stage of life: its gritty realities, secret joys, hidden spirituality and cherished moments—reasons to be grateful that old age is always a gift from God!

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February 5, 2025

The Anxious Generation up closer

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
February 5, 2025
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05February

(Just this once, I’m going to relent and use this entry’s word count to spotlight a few of the hundreds of astonishing ideas that Jonathan Haidt offered in The Anxious Generation. And if you look closely enough, you’ll see some light, some hope!) “These two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 becameMORE...

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February 3, 2025

The Anxious Generation

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
February 3, 2025
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03February

(Today’s entry contains some of my reflections after reading a startling book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Yes, the title caught my attention, too, for good reasons….) “Our technologies may be harming us more than we admit.” Over the past few years, that idea has attached itself to smartphones and social media, sometimesMORE...

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January 31, 2025

Prime numbers and prime theology

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 31, 2025
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31January

(Just in case you missed it: After six years’ work, Luke Durant, a San Jose, CA researcher, discovered and verified last fall a new prime number that consists of 41,024,320 digits! There probably are theological connections….) If you’re already fascinated with the intricacies of higher mathematics, you know that prime numbers are those divisible only by 1 and themselves. (Hence 2,3,5,7, 11, 13MORE...

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January 28, 2025

“Discernment” as neurobiology

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 28, 2025
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28January

(Recently I explained my decision to regard the current political maelstrom as a distraction that could harm my responsibility to maintain a discerning spirit. Today a further peek into the reasons behind those thoughts.) When I wrote about stepping around the distractions that could impair my God-given abilities to determine how best to live purposefully right now, I was thinking about my GodMORE...

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January 24, 2025

Field Notes: Quantifying elderhood

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 24, 2025
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24January

(I’ve noticed that much of what I have seen and heard beyond this computer screen is encased in numerical certainty, realities surrounded and proven by numerals. Not wanting these later years of my life to go unnoticed, I have resolved to verify my worth with numbers. I anticipate this to be a noble effort….) One perhaps disappointing element about some older adults’ past-professional days areMORE...

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January 16, 2025

AI Updates

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 16, 2025
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16January

(Artificial Intelligence has been inserted into many facets of our daily lives, so it makes sense to stay current with thought leaders in this field. The following paragraphs contain some of my takeaways from a recent reading of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Wharton management professor Ethan Mollick.) Mollick’s basic premise is straightforward: Given the rapid ascendancy ofMORE...

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January 13, 2025

Be truth

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 13, 2025
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13January

(Continuing the general direction of hopeful and tangible ways each of us can continue to be Gospel in these times, this thought: We can embody the best and most hopeful elements of what’s good and godly. Today, exemplifying truth.) You and I could fill our daily conversations with fulminations about the overwhelming presence of falsehood in today’s society. (Short version: It’s everywhereMORE...

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January 10, 2025

Discernment for right now

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 10, 2025
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10January

  My viewpoints about today’s events range across a vast emotional landscape. My emotional states seem like small energies, each one hoping it might explode into the prevailing thought that will guide me through the coming days. Discernment seems difficult. Maybe you feel the same…? The outlook that gathers around foreboding isn’t that helpful. Emotions that traipse among PollyannishMORE...

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January 9, 2025

Pastoral care revisited

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 9, 2025
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09January

(If you’ve followed these entries for awhile, you’ll recognize the theme right away: “Take care of your pastor.” Today a little more oomph and currency to those thoughts. Looking ahead at the place of this vocation in our personal and societal well-being.) The coming days/weeks may turn into trying times, individually and for our nation. Whether there will be disagreements, discomforts orMORE...

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January 7, 2025

Here endeth the Interregnum

By Bob Sitze
In Mind/Body
January 7, 2025
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07January

(Right about now, we’re coming to the end of a between-Presidents period. In a little while, the priorities of the now-former [president] will yield to those of the former former [president]. What we could only imagine will soon fill today’s news. In the meantime, some thoughts….) Emotionally speaking, these several weeks—from November 6th to January 20th—have been relatively quiet. What has beenMORE...

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Bob Sitze

BOB SITZE has filled the many years of his lifework in diverse settings around the United States. His calling has included careers as a teacher/principal, church musician, writer/author, denominational executive staff member and meat worker. Bob lives in Wheaton, IL.

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