Depicting Old Age Honestly and Passionately
HUNGER, by Elizabeth Layton - April 18, 1985 Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it is harvest time. -Judah Leib Lazerov Theme: Turning Points (late-in-life transcendence) I’ve always been drawn to stories of personal transformation, or “turning points” in people’s lives. The appeal for me is in the notion of change—your foreseeable life suddenly takes a new turn. I had just such a moment in 1997 when an injury caused great loss leading to a re-evaluation in my life; as the scaffolding (metaphor) crumbled around me. I’d always been the athlete; and that
Aging in Place With A Whole New Mind
Author Daniel Pink recently wrote: “In a downturn everything is up for grabs,” which suggests to me possibility. In the clinical setting if a heart is beating irregularly it's shocked (cardioverted) so it can restart into a new rhythm once again. The “shock” of this economic crisis may be the cardioversion needed for many to be liberated from “The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.” Recall the Greek myth of Sisyphus who was cursed for eternity to roll a huge boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again and repeat the process