John P. Weiss- The Old Man on the Scooter
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself They met in a quaint coffee shop near the edge of town. Mary liked the location because it was less noisy than the crowded, bustling Starbucks downtown. Here, at the Frothy Mug, she could always find a quiet corner by the window, where she read her […]
Thoreau on the Greatest Gift of Growing Old
This article by Maria Popova was published on 26 May, 2014 in The Marginalian. “Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts,” Karl De Schweinitz wrote in his 1924 guide to the art of living, and as with any art, genius-level mastery at it is only accomplished through hours upon hours of deliberate […]
Celebrating a Birthday? Why?
#CQ, #Birthdays, #Ageing
Nick Cave on the Art of Growing Older
#Ageing, #Nick Cave, #the Marginalian, #Popova
John P. Weiss – And then One Day you Disappear
#Ageing, #Weiss
Popova on de Beauvoir – The Art of Growing Older
#de Beauvoir, #Ageing
1972 Review: The Coming of Age by De Beauvoir
#De Beauvoir, #Ageing
George Eliot on Mourning the Past
#Stoicism, #George Eliot, #Death
Leonard Cohen: Love and Dying
#Cohen, #Dying
Getting older is a pest
#Ageing, #pest