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Welcome to our latest news! We use this page to share mini-blogs about things that are happening, some thinking we've been doing and anything we think you'd love to hear about.

We'd also like to hear from you. If you have something you want to shout about (no ranting!),  promote or share some thinking you've been doing, then just email members@mysocial.london and we'll get it sorted.

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By Jess Jarvis | 9th May 2022

A fare well and thank you

By Paul Springer | 9th January 2022

Graham Gardiner is moving on – from CEO of Age UK Lambeth to leading a hospice in Scotland. If you have found MYsocial / AUK Lambeth to be of special value in these times you have Graham, and the people he’s encouraged like Dee and her team, to thank. For me it has been a…

Mysocial’s Good Reads and Recipes

By Abibat Olulode | 12th February 2021

MYsocial has been Zooming through 2020 as a place where our members have found community and mutual support, learned, laughed, and shared our knowledge of life. Turns out that’s a subject where we all have a lot to offer each other, being old enough to know a thing or three. This wee booklet gives some…

2020 – One From The Heart

By Paul Springer | 29th December 2020

When it began, I thought of 2020 as a year of seeing clearly (20-20 vision). Well it was every bit of that. We saw more clearly how challenging and dangerous life can be, and how selfishness on all levels from behaviour to government doesn’t work, and how loving our neighbours as ourselves makes all the…

MYsocial – Together – all of us

By Paul Springer | 13th November 2020

We have a Zoom group every Wednesday at 3:30. We call it ‘Together’. We talk about life. Turns out that’s a subject where we have a lot to offer each other, being old enough to know a thing or three. As we got on enjoying the big family this has become, we started thinking about…

Ageing Strong Together – join in and see what you think

By Paul Springer | 1st November 2020

This is an update on the Age Strong blog I posted in August. I liked that one. It was full of good ideas and intentions. Since then MYsocial members have been co-discovering what it means to “age strong” and how we make good ideas into reality – together. On Wednesdays we have a “Together” group…

ZEN, NEVER AGEING, STAR WARS and BEING a ONE TRICK PONY

By Paul Springer | 7th September 2020

Recycle my last blog? Seriously? Yes, well you need to read it to appreciate this one, and it is a wonderfully short and easy read. It’s about the ancient Zen of the Original Face and how easy, obvious and practical it is as “a meditation that works with bingo, football, making love, shopping, dying, partying……

ZEN MEDITATION made incredibly simple and useful

By Paul Springer | 27th August 2020

Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen (637-712), said to See what at this very moment your own face looks like, the face you had before you were born. Zen Master Daito Kokushi (1281-1337) said that all the 1700 koans of Zen are simply pointers to our Original and Featureless Face. I tell you about…

Age Strong

By Paul Springer | 19th August 2020

“Older people are our underdeveloped renewable natural resource.”- Professor Peter J Whitehouse “We’re all on this amazing ride together, younger people are just older people in training, and ageing is an elite sport. Let’s get good at it.” – Paul Springer Age UK Lambeth has a bit of a plan. The idea is that we…

Age Strong Town Meetings

By Paul Springer | 19th July 2020

I held one of our great “Together” MYsocial Zoom discussions on this subject, and managed to do a really bad job of it. It’s probably going to be good and important – my mistake was not being clear about it. So, trying to do better and in case you’re interested in joining us: Age UK…

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