A Senior Moment
> 2021: A Senior Moment. https://t.co/BHKWogT1O4 — Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) May 23, 2021 [https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1396612011308589061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Sadness
> "Breathing. Only the chore and sadness of breathing and breathing, as things change from tender to dry, new to old." Catalan writer, Mercè Rodoreda died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 1983 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=…
A gentler thought
> "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." Aristotle — Philosophy On Ice (@PhilosophyOI) April 10, 2021 [https://twitter.com/PhilosophyOI/status/1380814067254784004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
What the future holds
> should surely be a sort of natural priesthood, whom life has disciplined and consecrated to be the refuge and rescue of early stumblers and victims of self-despair. — George Eliot (@GeorgeEliot_) March 16, 2021 [https://twitter.com/GeorgeEliot_/status/1371841412824768512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Eliot on aging
> “One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.” George Eliot died 140 years ago today, leaving us some tremendous literature and her lived lesson in why we grow happier as we grow older: https://t.co/WfRKMgNwUs — Maria Popova (@brainpicker) December 22, 2020 [https:…
So that's what novels are for
> "One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened." English novelist and children's writer, Nina Bawden died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_…
Unfortunate
> “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour” English writer, Beryl Bainbridge died #OnThisDay [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnThisDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] in 2010 #ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_…
Getting Older
> "As we get older we either become our worst selves or our best selves." —Steve Martin — Jeffrey Cufaude (he/him) (@jc46202) May 14, 2020 [https://twitter.com/jc46202/status/1260749766033637377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…