HeyJaredRetired But Not Retiring - Notes from a Boomer
Boomers! This is for those in our increasingly marginalized generation. Where we've been. Where we are. Where we're going. (not to assisted living - anytime soon, anyway.)
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OLD AGE GETS A BAD RAP (opens the original)
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For the record I have never done this with my trousers. Nor do I know anyone who has. Eliot was only 22 when he wrote “Prufrock” and despite being a truly great poem, it is, where growing old is concerned, complete bullshit. It is a young man’s imagined version of what it is like being “on in years.” Thinning hair, bald spots, skinny limbs – and timidity. Easy pickings, but it doesn’t really get at who we are. Prufrock devolves from “Do I dare disturb the universe” to “Do I dare to eat a peach?”
The Organ Recital (opens the original)
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During any social gathering with contemporaries, we spend more time discussing bodily misfires (aka “The Organ Recital”) than regaling our friends with tales of recent travels or bragging on our son or daughter’s latest accomplishment – or more likely our grandkids’ Oh la vach!Most of us have suffered from one infirmity or another. We all know friends who have had heart, knee, hip, prostate, thyroid or other issues – even the dread “C” word. As Linda Ronstadt said of her own heartbreaking health
The Obnoxious Grandparent (opens the original)
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“…his grandfather perfectly bored the tavern with stories about the little lad’s learning and genius.” Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackery, 1847Proud, boastful grandparents are not a new phenomenon. We have been boring people for centuries with tales of our remarkable grandchildren. After all, we have the time to brag. Because we are not consumed with raising the youngster.***************When our first child was born, a friend who was already a father, said, “Welcome to the group of people w
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