Podcasts

4 stages of old age

June 15, 2022

We may have 40 years to live after 60. They are not blancmange years: they are vivid and constantly changing, just like the rest of life.

Life cycle of the human psyche: Me! Now!

June 28, 2021

Today’s cartoon is a view of the life cycle of the human psyche. And of senior guilt. Me! Now! say the children, as they must. Shifting personal gratification off its pedestal as the number one aim in life is a struggle. And personal development, idolised by thousands from Maslow to Paltrow, can be seen as […]

Life outside the potager: aging naturally

April 13, 2021

If I were a vegetable I would hate to live in a potager garden. No chance of aging naturally there. I might look pretty but my life would be regimented—and short.