Falltime
One way to know you’re now in your sixties: at a yearly physical, the first question from both nurse and doctor is “Have you fallen in the last year?”
Happiness and finitude
“Tragic wisdom is the wisdom of happiness and finitude, happiness and impermanence, happiness and despair. This is not as paradoxical as it might sound”: André Comte-Sponville.
6:24
A little late getting to the rest of Thursday.
Roger Ebert’s fall
Roger Ebert, writing about diminishing mobility and a recent fall out of bed.
Words from Steve Jobs
Good advice for life, from a 2005 commencement address.
"Betty's Graduation"
Suprisingly poignant dialogue from Father Knows Best
Time, its rapid passing, an everyday example of
Terry Jones of Monty Python on time passing
"The kids"
Grown up into grown-ups
Daughter, time, wine
Time passes
Bill and Virginia Youngren's house
Seeing a house on This Old House
11:55 p.m.
From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists : The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock tw...