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You know you are getting old when:
^^^^^^ I didn’t know what was in most cocktails when I was something of a barfly, back in the mists of time. I either took it on ice or had well drinks — vodka and tonic, bourbon and soda, etc.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Calendar Is Ticking
^^^^^^ ”Memory care centers” is the somewhat euphemistic way some dementia facilities are referred to around here. Just as well. We all know what they mean. I can’t recall who it was who responded to being asked why he made a point of frequently visiting an elderly relative deep into dementia...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Strange Superstitions and The Superstitious Among Us
People often turn to magical thinking in the absence of more reasonble approaches to difficult realities. And that’s fine by me. If you can’t do anything about, say, whether the kids will be safe on their camping trip or your lab results will come back negative for HIV, you may as well indulge...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Calendar Is Ticking
^^^^^ Sounds torturous. My wife’s father had Alzheimer’s. He died three years ago. I resist characterizing anyone’s death as a blessing, but I understand the sentiment. Wife’s dad (I never did refer to him as my father-in-law, what with he and I being closer in age than I am to his daughter)...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Calendar Is Ticking
I’ve long thought that I would find life with dementia tolerable so long as I could still appreciate beauty. Imagine my delight, then, when I stumbled across this quote from Franz Kafka … “Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.”- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Calendar Is Ticking
^^^^^^ Yeez! Where did this happen? I trust you’ve healed up okay? A friend, a fellow a few years older than me, was quite distressed when his wife was diagnosed with heart failure. I told him that many millions of us here in God’s Country are heart failure patients and live for decades with...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Calendar Is Ticking
No need to apologize. We’re all adults here, and all who have made their contributions to this thread so far are well past the median age, so we’re all aware there’s but one way our stories end. I’ve had a couple of ablations myself in recent years. They were a walk in the park compared to the...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Calendar Is Ticking
A favorite uncle died at a quite advanced age a couple years ago. The proximate cause of death was renal failure, I think, but he had been struggling with vascular dementia for a couple-three or four years prior. The last time we talked, maybe a month before he died, he was still kinda present...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Parcels wrapped & tied with string.
Echoes of “My Favorite Things.” (If you’ve never heard John Coltrane’s take on that tune, you haven’t yet lived.)- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Introduction from a vintage Boot enthusiast from Germany
^^^^^^ Cool. I appreciate our guys and gals from other lands who take the time and trouble to impart their knowledge and perspectives upon us in English. I dig the boots. I don’t know much about footwear myself, but I’m looking forward to what you might show us.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Have any of your sports interest revived in recent years?
It’s been just the opposite for me. I still watch American football, because it is quite entertaining, but I’d imagine the gladiator games in ancient Rome were quite entertaining, too. So it’s something of a guilty pleasure, as the game itself risks the health of the players. Boxing is even...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What’s to like about where you live?
The 4x4 post holding up my mailbox down by the sidewalk is a canine newsstand. They sniff it; they pee on it. Some are daily visitors, along with their humans. People up the street have a little sign asking that people not let their dogs pee on the plantings. That’s okay, but I’d rather have...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What’s to like about where you live?
Looks good to me. Nice house. And yes, a friendly looking dog does wonders. Fur-bearing icebreakers, they are.- tonyb
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You know you are getting old when:
^^^^^^^ So in some circles going back a century and more ago a person might have heard “He is riz“ on Easter mornIng?- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
In my time that sort of insincere flattery was called “blowing smoke up her skirt” or “his a**.”- tonyb
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Old gas stations
A page from the book of Walker Evans photos that arrived in yesterday’s mail.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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You know you are getting old when:
^^^^^^ Sheesh! Those neighbors would be apoplectic at what’s parked around here. I just got back home from running errands. On my block are several cars that haven’t moved in months, minimally. Most are parked in driveways or on “lawns” alongside driveways, but a few others are on the street...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
