Category Archives: Aging
More to dream
They’re older than you—they have more things about which to dream. :- Doug.
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We ask the clock
We ask the clock, how much time do I have left till…as if time were sand in a bag with a hole in the bottom. It is hard for us to see time as anything else. But was it always … Continue reading
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We of the young and old
We of the young look for the bottom line of the old person, our managers see only their form. We of the old have gone, some of us, beyond to formless, bottomless. This can confuse those of us still young. … Continue reading
Perhaps the line
Perhaps the line between young-old and old-old is called curiosity. :- Doug.
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Unseen trippable boundaries
The time line of old folks, if it exists at all, might just be with a long past tail, an interminable now, and very short future headlights. If we then, as carefamily, are living in a time line where the … Continue reading
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Rhythms in a nursing home
There are rhythms of life in say a nursing home. The rhythms are like languages where people cannot understand one another. There is the long flowing beat of the older, the staccato of the staff. :- Doug.
Old are not merely young
Old are not merely young with more years. :- Doug.
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larger than ever we were
We begin as two cells—egg and sperm—and consciousness expands to our brand new toes and stomach and heart. Then one day we discover ourselves reversing course. Consciousness shrinks as legs and organs slow. Our spirits come back to the few … Continue reading
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to ask of us
We’re still living—life has something to offer us and to ask of us. :- Doug.
They live longest who
Perhaps they live longest who have the most to figure out. :- Doug.
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Old is a definite developmental
Old is a definite developmental stage some folks are privileged to go through. :- Doug.
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Finally have enough material
In old age we finally have enough material to make something of ourselves! :- Doug.
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What is the work?
What is the work people—even people with dementia—are doing in old age? :- Doug.
Time is relative in age
Time is relative in age. Visits to years ago may take seconds in others’ clock time and months in subjective time. :- Doug.
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Our spatial aspect
Our spatial aspect makes us appear as objects with mass and our time aspect as processes involving equivalent energy. Our matter and activity cannot be separated: they are facets of the same reality. This is equally true of old-old people. … Continue reading
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