Comments on: On getting older

by: Earl Mardle

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:31:03 +0000

I go with Richard, we are sitting at the bottom of the steepest learning curve in human history, we are going to have to be full of curiosity and desire to learn and willing to suggest to the governors that they are the ones who led us into the muddy in the first place and should step aside.

I think Saltation wraps it up pretty nicely if, as is usual, slightly coarsely.

by: richard

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:44:26 +0000

You have my sympathy and a curious fellow feeling. Like you I have gallstones and a heart condition. Both discovered as a result of having Bell’s Palsy and a series of medical investigations that followed.

Age and its consequences seems to creep up on you. I find it hard to believe that I am going to be 63 in a few days. In my head I am still that that young, curious man of forty years ago or so. Of course, some of that is nonsense. Experience does make a difference and I wouldn’t trade what I have learnt over the years to get back that physical condition of forty years ago. But maintaining curiosity, a sense of wonder and desire to have some understanding of the world does seem something worth retaining, particularly since we seem to be moving to one of the most interesting phase of human life on this planet.

So let’s focus on keeping inquiring minds and exploring the world outside and let’s not get too submissive to the internal governor.

by: Johnnie Moore

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:36:06 +0000

“Our world lacks two things that old age seems to bring: humility and the submission to an internal governor, what I call Life (or God)” So true!

by: Safran

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:26:58 +0000

Be well, my friend. I can tell the readers that any travel with Terry is an assurance that he is as energetic and lively a companion as you would find in anyone regardless of their age. If age is a state of mind, Terry’s a fun, exciting and hilarious kid.

And when I bitched about turning 40, he’d have none of it.