The Other Side of Sixty

Pain colours everything. We know that. But I believe it has a huge impact on us as we age. Aging past sixty I mean. I observed myself yesterday. I had lab work booked in anticipation of an a...

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 Bits and pieces as I manage, or try to,  the sporadia of my life. Tax season, though much, much reduced from days gone by in its volume, is upon me. But so far managed well. There now I've j...

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One of you dear readers suggested I do a blurt now and again, rather than a BIG MOTHER OF A BLOG POST. So here goes. I read a prompt recently about a slice of news of the day that was the...

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Sporadic indeed. Thank you to all those who emailed me to see what was happening. I hasten to assure I am still above the sod and not pushing up the daisies. I haven't popped my clogs in other ...

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 Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections.  A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old,...

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They become more precious as we age, we lose some and we gain some if we are fortunate. I still grieve the many I have lost to death, a couple to dementia, another long time one through intole...

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I'd like to post more here but a dearth of any kind of originality discourages me. I struggle with the acceptance of aging and not being able to do all the things I did. Spontaneity is missing....

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  I look upon this photo with horror. It popped up in one of my feeds the other day.  I drove this sucker every single day for more years than I can count, finally saving enough money to b...

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>  >>  I am pieces of all the places I have been and the people I have >>  loved >  >>  I've been stitched together by song lyrics, book quotes, >>  adventure, l...

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In chatting with a friend the other day she brought up a familiar topic amongst us oldies. Death and the ongoing loneliness as we age when those we loved (not family or relations) have toss...

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What's happening in that big wild country to the south of us here in Canada? We can't avoid the US news here as we are forever linked via trade and economies, etc. Wags have compared The US and...

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 In the mail: An annual magazine, published for well over a hundred years sent by my sister every year from my home city of Cork.  150 pages of Cork past and present and cherished by every ...

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From my bedroom window this morning. It descends gently at first. A teaser you might call, not threatening at all. But we check the forecasts and know the onslaught is coming soon. Cancel...

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 THE DELIGHTFUL AND AS YET UNREAD PILE FROM OUR ANNUAL JOLABOKAFLOD OF 2023 I CAN HARDLY WAIT TO DIG MY EYES INTO THESE. I'm only listing the best of my ratings (5/5) Many I tossed- l...

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I am mindful of those who stand apart from all the celebratory jollies. I know far too many who have lost beloveds this past year or have other struggles and I know how it feels having gone th...

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I don't, anymore, rally myself around the season. We do celebrate Solstice though. My pagan ancestors live on in my bones and I find their worship of visible objects much more logical to my analy...

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I had this dream last night. My dreams are always fulsome, in glorious or inglorious technicolor, sometimes musical, other times with old ghosts of beings beloved and lost to the finale that ...

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A friend texted me a couple of days ago and said there was a duo we had previously enjoyed playing at a local coffee house that Friday night and we should go. It's been four years since we di...

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Winter has arrived here on the Edge. I just took this photo of outside with most of the street snow gone (plows are quick on the job here, as is the super of the building with his mini snowplow...

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I was riveted by this recent article in The Tyee. You can read the complete article here . The major points of the effects of pandemics: (1) Immutable Forces of History (2) Pandemics Thri...

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No worries on the title. I just invented this word to cover sporadic posts, blurts, exclamations. I think it neat. You may not. But whatever, as the young 'uns have it. I've had far too man...

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Not much to produce here this week. It has been a wet, windy one apart from today where I had planned to go out but my body went on strike, particularly one leg which woke me up at 6 and now it's...

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 I'm joining with Elephant's Child , River  and others for Sunday Selections. Spaces I took shots of the places around me - inside. Upper community area which overlooks the lower com...

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I'm joining with Elephant's Child , River  and others for Sunday Selections even though it's only /Saturday (early) here but yay, Australian time! No theme just eclectic. My blackboard in ...

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Photo courtesy John Moore I have one of those faces, the kind where a stranger will sit down and confide all kinds of personal events and occasions, happy and sad, broken hearts, personal h...

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