tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post1728543167551660101..comments2024-03-28T12:46:54.004-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/28/24: Poet Donald Hall pens a guide to old ageNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22879181867080645542015-06-26T16:02:17.263-05:002015-06-26T16:02:17.263-05:00Glad I softened ANA up just a bit for ya, and oute...Glad I softened ANA up just a bit for ya, and outed what his intentions were. Sometimes, it takes an Italian to get 'er done, wink.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-82215907854175709162015-02-03T06:49:59.894-06:002015-02-03T06:49:59.894-06:00"There are no happy endings," Hall write..."There are no happy endings," Hall writes, "if things are happy they have not ended." <br /><br /> Poignant...although I personally subscribe to John Lennon's “Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”<br />marigoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048917945585998672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35534323059164644432015-01-30T17:01:19.131-06:002015-01-30T17:01:19.131-06:00Humor is indeed a bulwark against old age, but so ...Humor is indeed a bulwark against old age, but so can be learning. I feel sorry for people who enter that "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" without having acquired the habit of inquiry that a good book caters to. The point is suggested in a work by the well known poet "Anonymous."<br /><br /> "When your light is on all night<br /> You're either reading<br /> Or you're dead,<br /> Or you're having fun in bed."<br /><br />Of the three, one is unwelcome and nature decrees that only reading, of the other two, can offer undiminished pleasure.<br /><br />Tom Evans<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-86728315808732421172015-01-30T12:24:03.996-06:002015-01-30T12:24:03.996-06:00We don't want to go back to the middle ages, b...We don't want to go back to the middle ages, but today's meds props people up to live long, but not for a good quality of life, while nursing homes and hospitals/ pharms. make money off of them and medicare. And Neil, we don't think that over half your readers are 80. You have many mid aged subscribers to the paper and my 20 something daughter loves it too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39237221348015192252015-01-30T10:50:57.995-06:002015-01-30T10:50:57.995-06:00Mr. Evans,
Seems to me that age is not the proble...Mr. Evans,<br /><br />Seems to me that age is not the problem when it comes to getting that joke. You don't have to be past your mid-fifties, at the outside, to be familiar with the references. If the joke is that the workers' revolution headed by Lenin ended up necessitating that the workers revolt against IT decades down the line, I get it. If not, this is another clear indication that your UC education puts mine to shame! Not that this would be the only post of yours that demonstrates that, sadly. ; )Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43322445514984814632015-01-30T09:52:57.874-06:002015-01-30T09:52:57.874-06:0071 is OK. Life is what you make it at any age. A...71 is OK. Life is what you make it at any age. Age is more a state of mind than the changes in our bodies. After all, we are all stuck with the bodies we were born in, and they began changing the day we were born. So what we do within the limits of our bodies has always been managed by our thoughts. I only wish more young people would realize what a precious and fragile and miraculous gift life on this earth is, and how quickly our time to enjoy it passes. Instead of killing and destroying, we should cherish each other and our mother earth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35964826789851910602015-01-30T08:52:55.725-06:002015-01-30T08:52:55.725-06:00A regret in growing old is that you have jokes tha...A regret in growing old is that you have jokes that few still living are likely to get. An example:<br /><br /> "General Wojeich Jaruzelski, the Dictator of communist Poland, who was having his troubles with Lech Walesa and Solidarity, was summoned to Moscow for consultation. During some down time he visited Lenin's tomb, hoping for inspiration. His hope seemed to bear fruit when he observed the preserved effigy's lips moving. Putting his ear to the glass he distinctly heard the father of Soviet communism say 'Arm the workers.'"<br /><br />I know many wouldn't have understood it even at the time, but I went to the University of Chicago.<br /><br />Tom EvansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13765495539599270832015-01-30T08:29:45.228-06:002015-01-30T08:29:45.228-06:00Lucky you.
45 wouldn't work for me.
I'd ...Lucky you.<br /><br />45 wouldn't work for me.<br /><br />I'd like to redo 17 until I get it right. 71 would be ok too.<br /><br />Johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69601484049180955092015-01-30T07:01:00.426-06:002015-01-30T07:01:00.426-06:00That is so totally not my life as I approach 83 in...That is so totally not my life as I approach 83 in June. I have always just kept on as if I am 45. The difficult part is that many friends die so I have to keep finding younger ones.<br />Barbara Maginnis PalmerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com