Dreaming While Middle-Aging (Source: Geo Davis) [NB: This post, more of a lyric essay or freestyle poetic riff than a journalistically sound response to Wajahat Ali's August 28, 2018 op-ed, takes liberties with quotations that may misrepresent the intentions, emphasis, and/or conclusions of the author. All quotations are excerpted from the original, but the nature of remix/mashup alters the ...
Midlife Quote
Do. Repeat. Excel.
Bear with me for a moment. I'm about to repeat myself. I apologize in advance. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Aristotle (Source: Excellence Is a Habit ) With so much new ground to cover, so many new ideas to voice, so many new images to birth, why, WHY am I doubling back? Why am I repeating myself? I really dislike repeating myself. It was a bit ...
Rebranding Midlife: Mid-century Modern
Mid-century modern is the new middle age. Midlife rebranded. Everything old is new again. No. No, don't say that word. Older. Not old. Beth Teitell (@BethTeitell) tackles the pejorative implications of referring to somebody as middle age. Her May 2018 Boston Globe piece, "The new insult: calling someone middle aged...", ponders a less loaded euphemism (epithet?) for our 40-65 gang. One ...
Wandering Prayer
“I am a brother to a wandering prayer.” — Uche Nduka, “With a Swoop” I am sending out a swooping Saturday salute to Uche Nduka (@UcheNdukaPoet) whose lilting truth-telling breathes urgency and nomadic mystery into these dangerous days, these tempestuous temper tantrums... I recommend that you jumpstart (or restart) your weekend with Nduka's wonder and swooping ...
Maturing
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity." — Tom Stoppard Griffin, our Labrador Retriever, will turn ten this spring. Aging. Maturing. Growing a little heavier and little slower and a little less interested in other dogs. Truth be told, Griffin has always been an old soul. Since at least the day we selected him as a pup from his barnyard litter in Lamoille County, Vermont only a couple of months ...
Midlife Reality Check
"Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it is against the wrong wall." ~ Joseph Campbell This is an image called "Tele Time" that is included in 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed. It's one of a series of telemark skiing collages I've created over the last few years. It's a mobile (originating photograph and doodle were created via mobile phone and tablet) mashup (digital ...