Welcome to Kalön Women

Kalön Women’s vision is to be a powerful voice for all women 40+ as we face challenges unique to our generation. We are the sandwich generation, caring for aging parents, growing or grown children, grandchildren and sometimes doing all of it while maintaining a professional career. And yes, salary equity is still an issue. Our professional career successes have been hard won, without the benefit of the ‘boys club’. We are living longer and healthier lives, which creates a host of issues including living alone, financial concerns, and new relationships. We don’t necessarily want to look older than our age, so fitness and health are important to us and we have grown beyond the need to mold ourselves into others expectations. We have learned to face life with strength, dignity and a big helping of humor.

The mission of Kalön Women is to provide answers and raise awareness of issues and causes that affect us, so that our generation of women will be stronger from knowledge gained, and the generation of women who follow in our path will hopefully find it less rocky.  The articles, stories, poetry and other written expressions in Kalön Women are created by real women 40+.  Written to inspire, help and perhaps provide a few laughs to all “women of a certain age”.

Retirement? I’ve discovered that women don’t retire in the traditional sense. Instead, we look for new challenges and then reinvent ourselves to meet them.
Welcome to Kalön Women! A new challenge, a reinvention and a forum for women over 40. A forum like no other – one designed specifically with you, “the woman of a certain age” in mind.

What is Kalön, you ask? Everything…a garden or a tree, a piece of jewelry or a favorite walk–has its kalön and is beautiful or admirable after its own fashion. Something can be beautiful without being perceived or known as beautiful. It is our very inability to know everything about a given object that actually makes it beautiful.

Beautiful is an experience that grows out of curiosity, the paradox of knowledge and the infinite ability of the particular to continue to reveal itself in continuously new and interesting ways.

To shut down the work of beauty, one need only claim to know everything about a given particular–either that one knows definitively what it is, or that one knows it is most definitely nonsense. Either way, it ceases to hold our attention or to reveal new meanings and truths to us.

It is then up to us, to reveal new meanings and truths to hold our attention and to grasp the true meaning of Kalön within ourselves.

I hope you will explore, share, challenge and reveal the Kalön Woman in you.

Sandra Levitin
Editor/CEO
Kalön Women