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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 2 months ago
I’m Okay With Being Called Old – finding ways to re-imagine that word.
Not long ago, I was discussing my 70th birthday celebrations with a male friend and I declared that I was old as part of the conversation. I didn’t m […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 4 months ago
A Deep Dive Back into Yoga in Turkey
Thirty years ago at 40, I was regularly travel writing for the Independent and without ever having done any yoga before, I found myself on a 10 day […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Second Home – getting used to my lover’s dominion
All this Living Apart Together – the joys of me being in the city and my partner being in the deep countryside – sounds blissful, and I’m not prete […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 10 months, 1 week ago
Age is just a number goes the stereotypical gush around getting older.
Or 70 is the new 40.
But age isn’t just a number, getting older is significant and 70 is a seminal life stage. I believe it’s imp […] -
Rose Rouse wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
We were old when we met. Asanga – Pete, Albert variously – was almost 70 and I was almost 60. And we lived five hours apart by car. Holy non-matrimony, that’s quite a trip. From West London to North Wales. And n […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things Henry Miller
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 underes […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
‘AofA is my favourite place on the internet these days’ Marianne Power, author Help Me – how self-help has not changed my life
Back in December 2015 when the idea was mooted for Advantages of Age in Suzanne Noble […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
Daphne Lander and Anne Jones are both in their mid-70s and they’ve just written a musical Artaban which is about to be shown in the West End.
How old are you both?
Daphne: Anne and I are both 75 – Anne is jus […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
Jan Day is one of the UK’s leading Tantra teachers. She trained for 15 years with Art of Being founder and, like her, former Osho follower Alan Lowen in Europe and Hawaii, as well as being a CTA certified coach. J […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
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. Yep, that was me. Putting out festival entitlement.
Oh no […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 2 years, 3 months ago
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.
The carpet would […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago
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.
Sometimes, I don’t sleep when I’m on my own – lots of restless […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 2 years, 8 months ago
The Track Re-visited
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 an […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 2 years, 10 months ago
How are you doing on the creative front? Has getting older freed you into a more creative place?
I just googled exactly that and depressingly it came back with endless reports about the brain being less creative […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 3 years, 3 months ago
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 […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 4 years, 3 months ago
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 p […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
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 t […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 4 years, 10 months ago
There’s something about starting a new pursuit and passion when you’re older. It’s stimulating in a different way. I began writing poetry when I was 55 ten years ago. Partly, because it was non-commercial. I knew […]
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Rose Rouse wrote a new post 5 years ago
Could you tell us about WOFFF and why you created it?
Women Over 50 Film Festival (WOFFF) champions and showcases the work of older women on screen and behind the camera with an annual short film festival and […]
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