Author Archives: dgermann

See: old means different things: it means the first grey hairs, it means severe debility. We feel old, we feel young. It is about how we look, how we feel, our energy, our health, our attitude, our spirit, our outlook, … Continue reading →

Not only do we get an extra 30 years: we are no longer old at 55. :- Doug.

Elder years offer new callings of old people. :- Doug.

Old age might be exiled in strange lands—or it could offer a fresh and long view to those rushing they know not where. :- Doug.

Reading in Simone De Beauvoir’s Coming of Age today. It seems that old age was almost always a matter of economics: the useless mouth did not get fed. It was resented. When the older person was able to retain ownership … Continue reading →

Anything you can write about old age, the opposite on the color wheel is also true; and all the other hues. :- Doug.

We cannot control the world, at our age. We now know that we never could, nobody can. We ever only can guide. :- Doug.