→ August 9, 2009
I love when The Sartorialist- Scott Schuman photographs anyone but especially when he finds beautiful and stylish men and women who are over 50. It’s awesome to look at photos of older people. We don’t see them enough as we’re used to looking at young people model all our fashions. Can’t figure out why fashion [...]
→ July 1, 2009
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water-bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud-turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to wade in, water-lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hay-fields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of [...]
→ June 23, 2009
Cool article – passed on to you from National Geographic Traveler. Ok, so maybe sleeping in a zoo isn’t your thing. Want to camp out in a museum instead? Then head to Copenhagen. The Kunsthal Charlottenborg museum of contemporary art just opened a new exhibit this weekend featuring a work by artists Bosch & Fjord that is, [...]
→ May 27, 2009
The Lowdown - “The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace was founded in July 2005 to provide scholarships for school-wide Transcendental Meditation programs in public, charter, and private schools throughout the United States and around the world, and to provide funds for universities and research institutions to assess the effects of the program [...]
→ April 7, 2009
“…she owes her longevity to the Lord, that she never did drink, she never did smoke and she never did fool around.” …and apparently she likes crispy bacon. Wow. and I thought 50 was old. another good Huff Post article – here.
→ April 4, 2009
World-renowned primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall turned 75 yesterday. Her patient observations of Gombe’s chimps–David Greybeard and Flo among many others–enabled her to correct a slew of misunderstandings about chimps prevalent at that time. She discovered chimp were omnivores, not vegetarians, as previously thought. In 1977, Dr. Goodall established her global nonprofit, The Jane Goodall Institute, which [...]
→ March 23, 2009
Motto – “Be Prepared.” The oldest living Girl Scout is 102-year-old Marianne Elser Crowder, born in Colorado Springs in April 1906. “I don’t feel that old,” says Marianne. The Wagon Wheel Council named Crowder the nation’s oldest Girl Scout after it conducted a nationwide search and sifted through council archives. Scouting taught her lifelong skills and [...]
→ March 21, 2009
From: Sam Breach of Becks & Posh – an excellent food blog. Words From My Grandmother Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Promise yourself to talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. Promise to make all your friends feel that there is something in them. Promise yourself to [...]
The New Old Age Good article in the New York Times. Knowing about Forgetting by Sara Davidson.
In an age obsessed with youth and beauty, Daphne Selfe is a welcome reminder that the two are not inextricably linked. The grandmother is in the 60th year of an extraordinary modelling career thanks to her graceful posture, striking cheekbones and her long, lustrous – and unashamedly grey – hair. At the age of 80, she is [...]
→ March 9, 2009
Did you know that in Japan and on September 15th of each year they have a holiday designated for every person who has turned 100 in the past year? It’s called “Respect for the Aged Day”. The birthday elders get silver cups from the government. That is going to change. Too many people are turning [...]
Great Depression Cooking with Clara Clara has a website – www.GreatDepressionCooking.com and a blog. She rocks.
I wish I knew Peter Gabriel. Mr. Gabriel had an idea and formed a group called the Elders, a group of important old folks whose opinions and experience we should value. The Elders In 1999 Peter began a conversation with Richard Branson about The Elders – a new gathering of world leaders. In 2007 The Elders became a [...]
→ February 24, 2009
I saw Peter Fonda on television yesterday – he was on some entertainment show. I die a little inside watching these shows, was waiting to head out the door and turned on the television. Those entertainment programs make me dizzy with all their fast talking, fast camera moving and quirky body movements. Anyway…like I said – [...]
→ February 23, 2009
The Snow Leopard author travels through a barren landscape. Novelist. Travel writer. Explorer. Zen monk. Peter Matthiessen is all of these, and more. But to consider the totality of his life experience and literary achievements is to risk being swept away by the drama of his worldly adventures and, as a result, to lose sight of [...]
→ February 18, 2009
Remember Billy Jack? Although marketed as an action film, the story focuses on the plight of Native Americans during the civil rights movement. It attained a cult following among younger audiences due to its youth-oriented, anti-authority message combined with the then-novel martial arts fight scenes. The centerpiece of the film features Billy Jack, enraged over the [...]
Seniors on the Catwalk – Yohji Yamamoto’s Paris Runway (GALLERY)(TREND HUNTER) This seems to be the season of unlikely runway models. Recently, Vivienne Westwood caused an uproar when she sent out beefy, tough-looking Roma gypsies on the Milan catwalks to model her 2009 menswear.… [More]
