Bruna Swerts – December 5, 2022 It has been a while. It has been two months since I last wrote a story here – between then and now, a lot has happened. I have met some incredible people whom you will read about in the upcoming stories (Andrzej, Mark, Eileen,...
Bruna Swerts – October 3, 2022 “To be a rock and not to roll.” That sentence has been causing me pain since I was 14 years old, too young – no, the correct term is under-aged – to be doing all the things I was doing while listening to Stairway to Heaven for the first...
Bruna Swerts – September 26, 2022 A few days ago, the Secretary General of the International Federation on Ageing, our very own Dr. Jane Barratt was recognized as one of the Healthy Ageing 50 – an initiative within the Decade of Healthy Ageing by the United Nations to...
Bruna Swerts – September 19, 2022 How well can you hear? Perhaps I have started with the wrong verb – many people can hear alright, which does not mean that they are necessarily listening. I have seen it happening in conversations these days: people do not seem as...
Bruna Swerts – September 12, 2022 How do you perceive respect? Do you consider yourself respected – by your family, friends, peers, and society at large? While the exact definition may vary from one person to another, one could argue there is a general understanding...
Bruna Swerts – August 29, 2022 What are you afraid of? This particular question was brought up quite recently by my acquaintances. I heard from a friend that he is afraid of having his heart broken. Another one, despite having trouble admitting it, was afraid of...
