Even if becoming a centenarian is close at hand. As long as your thoughts are relevant and free, a person should not feel old even if he or she uses a walker or a cane and possibly wheelchair-bound. In my case, old age did not set in until my body began to yield to time spent while my mind stayed young. Or, in sad cases, your brain and mind can age and deteriorate before your body. Many times your body may become old, while your brain and attitude may remain relatively young. Angelou died and since there is nothing I can say about this extraordinary, inspiration of a woman that others have said well, here is the poem again, On Aging.īut ain’t I lucky I can still breathe in.Īt 95, I have discovered that old age should not be connected or associated with the number of years that one has lived. Maya Angelou wrote an entire poem about being old and snippets from it have been bubbling up in my mind frequently enough that I had to track it down. She sure did get a lot of good use out of magnolias. She also said this: ”The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Isn't that splendid: “our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias." “We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias." We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. Her slim 2009 volume, Letter to My Daughter, is packed with her charm, insight and warmth including this: "I am convinced that most people do not grow up. Undoubtedly, I don't need to tell you how wise a woman she was and she found her way to writing about age now and then. It has been more than five years now since author, editor, college professor, truth-teller Maya Angelou died in 2014. Other times, I turn to shorter pieces which, depending on the writer, can be as knowing and wise as book-length thoughts occasionally are.Īn important one came to mind over the past week or so. Sometimes years later I catch up with a book I ignored when it was first published (I'll be telling you about one of those soon). I miss some good ones but what's an old girl to do – there is only so much time.
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It is titled The Wonderful Crisis of Middle Age, a book Eda approached from her professional perspective of family counselor.īooks about ageing – good, bad and mostly indifferent – now pour forth annually, so many that I no longer bother with them unless I can discern their relative value before reading.
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And the only person I know who wrote about middle age was my late friend, Eda LeShan. No one writes about other ages of life while they are living them. (Near illiterates were, apparently, as ticked off about incessant disparagement of growing old as I was/am.) Only that the passage of those earliest boomers into elderhood begot a tsunami of books on ageing.įrom that point forward, anyone who lived to be 60 or more, with or without discernible English language skills, wrote a book about growing old.
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I don't mean the books necessarily got better. That changed at just about the exact moment the oldest baby boomer turned 65 in 2011.
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The few that existed were mostly academic tomes, popular instructions on how to appear younger and collections of jokes about how awful getting old is. In the five or six years before I started this blog 15 years ago, when I was doing my early research into aging, there were hardly any books about the subject.