#gettingold — Public Fediverse posts
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@mikehindleuk not sure. Went out for sunset last night after a day of DIY and now I ache all over 🤣 #gettingold Hope you have a good day!
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@mikehindleuk not sure. Went out for sunset last night after a day of DIY and now I ache all over 🤣 #gettingold Hope you have a good day!
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A quotation from Elizabeth Bear
We claim the dignity of age, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all.
Elizabeth Bear (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]
Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 4 [Bijou] (2010)More about this quote: wist.info/bear-elizabeth/85244…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethbear #age #dignity #disability #gettingold #growingold #mortality #oldage #seniority
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A quotation from Elizabeth Bear
We claim the dignity of age, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all.
Elizabeth Bear (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]
Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 4 [Bijou] (2010)More about this quote: wist.info/bear-elizabeth/85244…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethbear #age #dignity #disability #gettingold #growingold #mortality #oldage #seniority
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That was fun, and I get to go to bed at a reasonable hour #gettingold
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That was fun, and I get to go to bed at a reasonable hour #gettingold
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A quotation from Elizabeth Bear
Age had not yet defeated her on all fronts, though it was a war of attrition she knew she was fated to lose.
Elizabeth Bear (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]
Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 3 (2010)More about this quote: wist.info/bear-elizabeth/85135…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #elizabethbear #age #gettingold #growingold #humancondition #mortality #oldage
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I was just reminded that I am “stranger offers me his seat on the train” years old. #gettingOld
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I was just reminded that I am “stranger offers me his seat on the train” years old. #gettingOld
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #gettingold #goodlife #growingold #livingwell #oldage #perspective #pleasure
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https://www.alojapan.com/1509624/naomi-osakas-wimbledon-exit-came-with-a-getting-old-joke-and-a-concerning-foot-injury-revelation/ Naomi Osaka’s Wimbledon Exit Came with a “Getting Old” Joke and a Concerning Foot Injury Revelation #ConcerningFootInjury #ConcerningFootInjuryRevelation #FootInjury #GettingOld #NAOMIOSAKA #NaomiOsakaWimbledon #NaomiOsaka'sWimbledonExit #news #Osaka #OsakaNews #大阪 #大阪府 Naomi Osaka’s best-ever Wimbledon run ended Tuesday with a7-6 (4), 6-4 quarterfinal defeat to Karolina Muchova, and the four-time Grand Slam champion didn’t
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In honor of my imminent first pair of multifocals.
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In honor of my imminent first pair of multifocals.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold
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Remember my old mate who was told he'd need heart surgery, "just" a stent or two, & went on OS holidays anyway? When he returned he was told it would be a triple bypass.
Today, he's recovering from a quadruple bypass. 😱 One very lucky boy^w old man...
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Remember my old mate who was told he'd need heart surgery, "just" a stent or two, & went on OS holidays anyway? When he returned he was told it would be a triple bypass.
Today, he's recovering from a quadruple bypass. 😱 One very lucky boy^w old man...
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warum sagt man „Ich hab mich verlegen” und nicht „Ich bin auf der ouch eingepennt”
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warum sagt man „Ich hab mich verlegen” und nicht „Ich bin auf der ouch eingepennt”
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Als ich #otd vor 18 Jahren zwei kleine Wesen auf meinen Unterarmen hielt, konnte ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass die beiden Kerle mich eines Tages überragen. Heute gebe ich die Verantwortung, die mir damals in die Wiege gelegt wurde, wieder ab. Es ist hier für Eltern wie beim Laufen lernen: irgendwann lässt man sie los, dass sie alleine durch die Welt tappen, bleibt aber in Reichweite, um beim Stolpern wieder aufzuhelfen. Und es bewegt mich mehr, als ich erwartet hätte. #FediEltern #GettingOld
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Als ich #otd vor 18 Jahren zwei kleine Wesen auf meinen Unterarmen hielt, konnte ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass die beiden Kerle mich eines Tages überragen. Heute gebe ich die Verantwortung, die mir damals in die Wiege gelegt wurde, wieder ab. Es ist hier für Eltern wie beim Laufen lernen: irgendwann lässt man sie los, dass sie alleine durch die Welt tappen, bleibt aber in Reichweite, um beim Stolpern wieder aufzuhelfen. Und es bewegt mich mehr, als ich erwartet hätte. #FediEltern #GettingOld
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Complete has-been me looking desperately to his front door mail box.
The 受験票 is now downloadable as a pdf online... -
Complete has-been me looking desperately to his front door mail box.
The 受験票 is now downloadable as a pdf online... -
I just read an article in which several people 100 years old or older were interviewed about their lives. One man mentioned that he remembered seeing a TV for the first time.
I'm nowhere near 100, but I remember the first time I saw TV. I was four years old, and my grandmother bought a television -- a small screen in a huge cabinet, and we all went to her house to watch it for the first time. As I remember, it was some sort of variety show, then changed to news and I got bored. This would have been 1955. My parents didn't buy a TV for another four or five years.
Do you remember the first time you saw a television?
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I just read an article in which several people 100 years old or older were interviewed about their lives. One man mentioned that he remembered seeing a TV for the first time.
I'm nowhere near 100, but I remember the first time I saw TV. I was four years old, and my grandmother bought a television -- a small screen in a huge cabinet, and we all went to her house to watch it for the first time. As I remember, it was some sort of variety show, then changed to news and I got bored. This would have been 1955. My parents didn't buy a TV for another four or five years.
Do you remember the first time you saw a television?
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #williamsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #goodlife #growingold #oldage #perspective #pleasure #gettingold #livingwell -
Following Sacha's fall in the kitchen last week when she had trouble alerting me - I've put alarm buttons in strategic places at knee height around the house.
They're only cheap eBay doorbells (set to a siren sound) but should serve to make enough of a racket to alert me of a problem if I'm around.
They're also by our outside doors so could work as a 'kind of' panic alarm.
(I was hoping to get Alexa to respond to the siren noise, but it doesn't recognise it as bleeping, coughing or snoring!) -
Following Sacha's fall in the kitchen last week when she had trouble alerting me - I've put alarm buttons in strategic places at knee height around the house.
They're only cheap eBay doorbells (set to a siren sound) but should serve to make enough of a racket to alert me of a problem if I'm around.
They're also by our outside doors so could work as a 'kind of' panic alarm.
(I was hoping to get Alexa to respond to the siren noise, but it doesn't recognise it as bleeping, coughing or snoring!) -
While I was in the garden cutting the grass, Sacha was in the kitchen cleaning the fridge.
She fell over (or at our age 'had a fall') and needed picking up.
She seems to be fine but thinks she's going to have a colourful derriere helped along by the anticoagulants.
She's rather stiff and aching as well.I'm not sure I've got the strength for this any more!
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While I was in the garden cutting the grass, Sacha was in the kitchen cleaning the fridge.
She fell over (or at our age 'had a fall') and needed picking up.
She seems to be fine but thinks she's going to have a colourful derriere helped along by the anticoagulants.
She's rather stiff and aching as well.I'm not sure I've got the strength for this any more!
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A quotation from Cesare Pavese
I’ve made a lot of stupid mistakes. Everyone does in this life. The real affliction of old age is remorse.
[Ho fatto molti stupidi errori, se ne fanno nella vita. I veri acciacchi dell’età sono i rimorsi.]Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian writer. essayist, literary critic
The Moon and the Bonfire [La Luna e i Falò], ch. 8 [The Cavaliere] (1950) [tr. Sinclair (1952)]More about this quote: wist.info/pavese-cesare/83914/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cesarepavese #gettingold #growingold #humancondition #mistakes #oldage #regrets #remorse
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This needs to go on my wish list ...
#starwars #gettingold #maytheforcebewithyou #geek #funnyreels #funny
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This needs to go on my wish list ...
#starwars #gettingold #maytheforcebewithyou #geek #funnyreels #funny
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
[Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #badhabit #desire #gettingold #inability #oldage #selfdeception #selfimprovement #selfrighteousness #sinfulness #vices #wrongdoing
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Efter dagligt at have gået 5-12 km i højt pace i en hel del uger, så tog jeg her til morgen chancen med en løbetur - første I 5år ca.
Det gik langt over forventning, selv om det ikke ligefrem gik stærk. Jeg er tilfreds
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Efter dagligt at have gået 5-12 km i højt pace i en hel del uger, så tog jeg her til morgen chancen med en løbetur - første I 5år ca.
Det gik langt over forventning, selv om det ikke ligefrem gik stærk. Jeg er tilfreds
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I decided to treat myself for publishing my new Cordwainer book by watching Project Hail Mary, which is now available for streaming. I was almost an hour into the movie before I realized I'd already read the book, several years ago. And I still couldn't remember how it ended.
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I decided to treat myself for publishing my new Cordwainer book by watching Project Hail Mary, which is now available for streaming. I was almost an hour into the movie before I realized I'd already read the book, several years ago. And I still couldn't remember how it ended.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
[Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage
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Swatch POP watch but, for eyeglasses.
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Feeling super nostalgic today, thinking a lot about the bands I used to be in, songs I used to play
