Japan's remarkable longevity rates are more than a medical achievement. As the number of active older adults increases, they're also changing our ideas on aging
What comes after 100?
#OldAge #aging #gerontology #HealthyLiving #Japan https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/05/12/lifestyle/japan-centenarian-lifestyles-100/
For the sake of what benefit should a woman or a man, a householder or one gone forth, often reflect thus: ‘I am subject to old age; I am not exempt from old age’?
9 Beautiful Street Art Tributes to Grandparents That Will Stay With You
Which one is your favorite?
https://streetartutopia.com/2025/04/26/art-tributes-to-grandparents/
Woke up
Jumped out of bed
Started shopping for a triple crankset with teeny tiny chainrings
looking at a bit of Ancient Greece to see how bits of Wolfland might operate in 2450AD
Maxim 146
146. When you reach old age, be sensible – Πρεσβύτης εὔλογος
Today’s #DailySutta:
SN 22.1 Nakulapitusutta: Nakulapita
“How, householder, is one afflicted in body and afflicted in mind?…”
Read the sutta
https://daily.readingfaithfully.org/sn-22-1-nakulapitusutta-nakulapita-2/?=MDS
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Something I'm learning as I get a bit older: make notes/recipes for large, multi-step processes.
To whit, when I looked at my local instance of HexDescribe to generate the contents of a new area that the PCs are venturing into... and I had that "WTH DO I DO??? I FORGOT!" moment.
Now I have a text file in the same folder as the hex maps, explaining exactly WTH to do...
Niin pysyvät nämä kolme: #usko, #toivo, #rakkaus. Mutta suurin niistä on rakkaus. And now these three remain: #faith, #hope and #love. But the greatest of these is love. #alzheimers #alzheimerssucks #parents #family #suomimastodon #finland #oldage
A great listen for any kind of #grief. Quite timely and helpful, "How to Live When a Loved One Dies" https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16672802 #Dharma #Buddhism #Birth #OldAge #Sickness #Death #BelovedCommunity #Interbeing #Mindfulness #Meditation #PlumVillage #EngagedBuddhism #RecoveryDharma
@thichnhathanh
@dharma @belovedcommunity @engagedbuddhism
@recoverydharma @plumvillage #hoopladigital
"Our lives are like an hourglass that never stops . . .
Each moment follows the one before, without end.
From moment to moment, life drains away:
We are babies, then adults, then old and dead,
Each moment follows the one before, without end.
Our lives are like a bubble or a candle;
Impermanence and death are like the wind! #KaluRinpoche in Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Everyday
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #EngagedBuddhism #RecoveryDharma
#Birth #OldAge #Sickness #Death
A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:
«
Years steal
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb;
And life’s enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/byron/73859/
A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:
«
The buttonwood throws off its bark in large flakes, which one may find lying at its foot, pushed out, and at last pushed off, by that tranquil movement from beneath, which is too slow to be seen, but too powerful to be arrested. One finds them always, but one rarely sees them fall. So it is our youth drops from us, — sca…
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/73595/
"A Dancing Dick Van Dyke"
by Dan Rather
"On Friday, Van Dyke’s [99th] birthday, the British rock band Coldplay released a video for their new single “All My Love” as a birthday gift to Van Dyke. Oh, and the song and dance man stars in the video, which is this week’s reason to smile."
Couple aged 100 and 102 tie the knot and set world record for oldest #newlyweds.
The bride, 102, and her groom, 100, tied the knot in May after nine years together.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spouses-combined-age-202-become-worlds-oldest-newlyweds-rcna184095 #age #oldage
A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:
«
Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still!
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/73288/
You know you're 'computer old' when you've actually used all these forms of data storage... #melbourne #scienceworks #data #computers #oldage
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