Category Archives: Aging

To age is to progress: as we choose. :- Doug.

What we have is declining growth of youth characteristics and increasing development of new capacities, capacities that hardly have a name. :- Doug.

When we say “I don’t feel old” we mean “I don’t feel the way society portrays old—as failing, decrepit, blithering. We can well feel vital. :- Doug.

We have advantages, skills and perceptions. Let’s use them. :- Doug.

Look at ads and images in the media this week—do any of these people look like you? :- Doug.

What is the slant of the line of human development through age? :- Doug.

I invite us to think about growing older and what it could mean for the species. :- Doug.

Perhaps retirement has been bad for us. We are no longer engrossed and absorbed in something or someone in life. Elder playpens, honey-do lists, and pastimes only go so far. Then we are bored and we drop out of life. … Continue reading →

The issue is not that we don’t want to grow old: it’s that we don’t want to buy into culture’s picture of age as decrepitude. We would live a vital old age. :- Doug.

Aging is simply more complex than imaginable. :- Doug.

We no longer are tabula rasa: we have written upon our slate. :- Doug.

What is it like to be your age? :- Doug.