This is a wonderful article and offers an excellent counter balance to the endless, mediocre advice…

…War. He was eighty years old. “At my age, why should I be afraid to make public protests?” he said. This is one of the advantages of old age: you have more to give and less to lose. “A blazing, fearless passion in an old man’s frail body is a moving sight,” says Beauvoir.
Old Age Is Not a Pathology
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Feb 18, 2022
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This is a wonderful article and offers an excellent counter balance to the endless, mediocre advice about how to “age well”.
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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.
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