Thank you AofA Members – Round Up 2021
Posted in Age is No Barrier7 mn read ‘AofA is my favourite place on the internet these days’ Marianne Power, author Help Me – how self-help has not changed my life
7 mn read ‘AofA is my favourite place on the internet these days’ Marianne Power, author Help Me – how self-help has not changed my life
9 mn read I’m not one of those people who like to travel alone. I like to share my experiences with someone else. However, I don’t underestimate the difficulties of being with someone else for 24 hours a day.
8 mn read I felt cynical on the way there. I knew I was going to be a rarity. Festivals often feel as though they belong to my generation. Talk about entitlement.
9 mn read Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which, we have no name. Anna Halprin, a legendary dancer, innovator, choreographer who died last week at 100.
4 mn read Sleeping as I get older is a huge thing!!! If I don’t sleep, then I am likely to be grumpy, reactive and extra-feisty. All day. I’m sure you agree.
7 mn read I am here again. On Asanga’s wild land. Slow running up the track that I walked and slowly ran up during the first lockdown in March and April 2020 when I was here in N Wales, in Gwynedd and scared.
7 mn read How are you doing on the creative front? Has getting older freed you into a more creative place?
8 mn read For the past seven years, I have been having a Living Apart Together relationship with my partner, Asanga. He lives on his beautiful wild land in North Wales and I live in my funky flat in Harlesden, North West London
14 mn read From our inception in 2016, Advantages of Age has always had a proclivity for poetry. In 1936, William Butler Yeats, widely considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, described Edith Sitwell’s poetry – ‘Her language is a traditional language of literature — twisted, torn, complicated, choked here and there by strange resemblances, […]
4 mn read Cards mean a lot to me. Birthday cards and Xmas cards particularly. I love both giving and receiving them. For me, it’s an opportunity to write personal messages, or long drawled out, hieroglyphic-looking paeans to family or friends.