The Joys of Elderhood
I am knee-deep in transformative work, primarily related to the intersection of ageism and ableism. And I have a new physical therapist who is helping me to address chronic pain with paradigm-shifting work called postural restoration. If this sounds like upheaval, that’s because it is. It’s hard work, and I am immensely hopeful.
Everywhere I turn, there is something new to learn and I LOVE it.
Just finished reading this really cool interview, This is 70: Chris J. Rice Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. Sharing an excerpt here:
What is surprising about being your age, or different from what you expected, based on what you were told?
It’s surprising how philosophical I have become in the last twenty years. Instead of thinking less, I think more, read more, write more. In a wider ranging and experimental way. I have not become more conservative as marketers and political pollsters would have us believe about seniors. No. In my particular old age, I have become more liberal, and equalitarian, broader minded, untraditional. Radical. At last, fully free to be the child I once was in the backseat of the car staring out the window trying to imagine the lives of all the people we passed.