Category Archives: Aging
just the bumps
There’s more to this road than just the bumps. :- Doug.
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and then we disappear
Society sees aging as continuous narrowing to a small ball, and then we disappear; elders see their lives growing every day, opening out and out, taking on the care of ever larger swaths of beings and times. :- Doug.
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Aging is to eldering moments
Aging is to eldering moments as the stars and moon are to northern lights :- Doug.
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Differences of dependencies
What is different about the dependence of infants and the dependence of the elders? Possibly: 99% of infants are on the same path; the elders are on varied paths to one terminus. :- Doug.
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cookies too
Grandma knows you wants what’s good for you cookies too has larger experiences ask her help :- Doug.
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You are getting older
If you tell people they are getting older, they will! :- Doug.
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Aging more complex
Aging has become more complex: varieties in health, vigor, sexuality, stances. :- Doug.
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Elder years:
Elder years: only pleasant? also useful? :- Doug.
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End of a human’s value?
Must mental incompetence or physical dependence be the end of a human’s value? :- Doug.
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What did you see?
What did you see in nature when you were growing up that you don’t see today? Fireflies? Bugs on the windshield? Monarch butterflies? People visiting on Sunday? People sitting on their porch? Kids studying bugs? Kids making up their own … Continue reading
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Purpose years
Why put on all these years if not to some purpose? :- Doug.
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Out of doors
Do some little thing out of doors every day. :- Doug.
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“The problem of aging”
A writer writes of “the problem of aging.” Better to regard it as a miracle from which to learn. :- Doug.
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Confuse not age and wisdom
Confuse not age and wisdom nor wisdom and elder :- Doug.
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Now that I’m in my 70s
Now that I’m in my 70s, what does it matter? :- Doug.
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I don’t have time not to get in their faces
I don’t have time not to get in their faces. :- Doug.
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Why do we want long life?
Why do we want long life past our child-rearing age? Why would you? :- Doug.
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