Category Archives: Aging
Frail strength?
What can we learn from the most forgetful of us all? What is the lasting strength of the frailest of us all? :- Doug.
Less worse?
Are we making aging less worse Or improving living? :- Doug.
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Old people are like lawyers:
Old people are like lawyers: we tell disparaging jokes about them as a class, but we love our own. :- Doug.
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How we culminate lives
The whole meaning of our culture is wrapped up in how we culminate lives, how we see elders, treat them. These are us. :- Doug.
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Old grow?
Grow old Meaning? While old still growing? Old grows? Old grow? Meaning grows? :- Doug.
Posted in Aging, Eldering, Poetry
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Flowers and seeds
The 70s are the flowering of old age Further on we go to seed What will you seed? :- Doug.
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A reason for nursing homes
One reason we have nursing homes is that mere adults see old people as being of no further use. They no longer produce children nor money. Therefore they hold us back, keep us from these activities of adult years. We … Continue reading
Tell me grandchild
Tell me grandchild, what have you learned? It may be, it may be. :- Doug.
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Dotage decrepancy
Dotage, decrepancy, and dementia are not meant for most :- Doug.
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Sex brought death
Sex brought death; gardens brought old people. :- Doug.
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Too sick and weak
We were hunter-gatherers following the seasons and food. So we left behind those too sick and weak to keep up. We became farmers, had much food and shelter. So we took care for these. Now we are mobile, scattered. So…what? … Continue reading
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Given age what
Most are given age; what will we do with it? :- Doug.
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science of deeper forms
In What Are Old People For? Bill Thomas observes that the pre-frontal cortex (he says the locus of the monkey mind) shrinks and so he speculates that we grow ever more capable of deeper forms of meditation and contemplation. This … Continue reading
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Infirm purposive light
Reading in Bill Thomas’s In the Arms of Elders, I was struck by his observation that the most infirm among us teach us the most important thing: community. They teach us caring. This is an important leaping off place. There … Continue reading
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