This was so interesting Hannah, thank you. I too struggled to reconcile getting older with the idea of being young - such a human experience, where all we ever know is being young until suddenly - we aren't! In my thirties I totally understood all those body-swap movies, as it would genuinely have been less weird to me had a genie offered me the chance to do my teens again, than accepting I was actually aging after all.
So interesting to hear about the French government. Is the prime minister's role there sort of like the deputy prime minister's here? Not that I *quite* know what that is!!
“protty: a derogatory term used by mostly irish people of catholic descent to bash those of protestant descent.” Who knew?
“I will try to atone for above jollity by being appropriately austere in every other waking hour.” That’s a deal with the Devil…I know because I’ve made many in my lifetime: e.g., In college, in the early 1970’s, as I walked across the campus towards the auditorium where 120 of my far more prepared classmates were sitting for whatever exam we were having that day, and I had not properly prepared, cramming the night away and making a deal to atone for my chasing girls while I should have been chasing the Krebs Cycle, I said the same desperate plea, “Dear God, if You get me through this test I vow to change my wild ways and become a proper student.” God laughed…
“But to soothe myself, I have developed a sliding scale of things and situations I am still ‘young for’” I love that imaginative concept!! I’m 70, but I didn’t think of my ages along the way…between the ears I was always in 7th grade…but the digital-age has changed the atmosphere, where the youthful-current-Kool is here and gone in less than a blink; so keeping up is keeping young. Plus I’m male and age is forgiven in males.
“Sketches and notes while watching Macron press conference” All fabulous!
“…engaging in. a ”fight against infertility”. That’s why immigrants should be welcomed with open arms…someday, soon, there will be a competition to attract immigrants.
Thirty-second book club…I just bought a used book on eBay about the ill-fated Donner Party called, “History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by McGlashan, C. F. If you are unaware of the Donner Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
This was so interesting Hannah, thank you. I too struggled to reconcile getting older with the idea of being young - such a human experience, where all we ever know is being young until suddenly - we aren't! In my thirties I totally understood all those body-swap movies, as it would genuinely have been less weird to me had a genie offered me the chance to do my teens again, than accepting I was actually aging after all.
So interesting to hear about the French government. Is the prime minister's role there sort of like the deputy prime minister's here? Not that I *quite* know what that is!!
“protty: a derogatory term used by mostly irish people of catholic descent to bash those of protestant descent.” Who knew?
“I will try to atone for above jollity by being appropriately austere in every other waking hour.” That’s a deal with the Devil…I know because I’ve made many in my lifetime: e.g., In college, in the early 1970’s, as I walked across the campus towards the auditorium where 120 of my far more prepared classmates were sitting for whatever exam we were having that day, and I had not properly prepared, cramming the night away and making a deal to atone for my chasing girls while I should have been chasing the Krebs Cycle, I said the same desperate plea, “Dear God, if You get me through this test I vow to change my wild ways and become a proper student.” God laughed…
“But to soothe myself, I have developed a sliding scale of things and situations I am still ‘young for’” I love that imaginative concept!! I’m 70, but I didn’t think of my ages along the way…between the ears I was always in 7th grade…but the digital-age has changed the atmosphere, where the youthful-current-Kool is here and gone in less than a blink; so keeping up is keeping young. Plus I’m male and age is forgiven in males.
“Sketches and notes while watching Macron press conference” All fabulous!
“…engaging in. a ”fight against infertility”. That’s why immigrants should be welcomed with open arms…someday, soon, there will be a competition to attract immigrants.
Thirty-second book club…I just bought a used book on eBay about the ill-fated Donner Party called, “History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by McGlashan, C. F. If you are unaware of the Donner Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party