Self defence kicks in — a poem
For decades now the ageing horde
has been a coming thing
looming and glooming and secretly booming
and while I’d been dreaming my life away
Tag: old age
Three score years and ten — a poem
That’s enough said Celia our mother.
The Bible says
that three score years and ten
is our fair share of life, our span.
Game plan for the coming decades
In which a very short poem posits a change of attitude that could triple the sunshine in our later years. relish the pleasurable tweak the controllable accept the unfathomable and face the inevitable Rachel McAlpine Image from “Prodigiorvm ac ostentorvm chronicon […]” (1557) Lykosthenes, Konrad; Kandel, David, and Manuel, Hans Rudolf
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Another view of 70- and 80-somethings
Getting used to dramatic changes in appearance in our seventies and eighties.
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Unloading the larynx: not for sissies
It’s boot camp year. I don’t say no to anything that could help me achieve my prep-for-old-age goals. I’m on stage three of working on my voice. So, off I went to Peter Chum, specialist voice-and-breathing physiotherapist for performers. I do perform (in more ways than one) and I want to give every performance my best whether singing […]
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