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“Act your Age”   As unlikely as it appears, both the Scientific American and Alcoholics Anonymous were important moments in my adaptation to learning to act my age.  But if you are short of time or impatient, you can jump below to the final short paragraphs at “Sex is better than ever! Then you can decide whether you’d like to back up and find out how I got to that point.   This is not me but it expresses my confusion. What did it mean to me as a child to hear, “Act your age!”   I don’t think my mother ever explained that to me.  But however confusing, I took it to mean that somehow I should be acting older than I actually was.  This at first made no [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:16+01:00August 8th, 2016|Integral Aging|2 Comments

Join the knitting circle – you are history by Mark Davenport

A peculiarly American insult, to tell someone that they’re history means that their “time” is over, make way for the new blood, take your pension and go play golf. Join a knitting circle! At Orange, once you are no longer productive, either as a producer or as a consumer (on your reduced income) you become a non-entity economically. Television ads are no longer trying to get YOU to buy anything. But today that “history” phase of life can last over 30 years, perhaps longer than your “productive” years from 30 to 65 or so. A whole new demographic is emerging that at least can and will vote. So they can’t be ignored completely. And they will not be content with the victim labels of a marginalized group “granted” recognition, however well meaning, [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:16+01:00July 12th, 2016|Blog Posts, Integral Aging|1 Comment
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