
Positive Aging Indeed
by
vtmnldy
on Fri 25 Jun 2004 01:19 PM CDT
| I have been receiving an interesting newsletter for some time now, which you may care to subscribe to. It is called "Positive Aging", and you can sign up for it here:
I particularly enjoyed this edition, from which I have excerpted the following:
ELDER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Counteracting the prevailing cultural bias that creativity is the provenance of the young, many periodicals now mention the great accomplishments achieved by those 60 and over. Here is a sample of some of the achievements of older people we have recently discovered: *Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex at 70 and Electra at 90. *Michaelangelo began work on St. Peter's Basilica in Rome at 70. *"Grandma Moses" took up painting as a hobby at 76. *Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little House on the Prairie, published her first book at 65. *Benjamin Franklin helped write the Declaration of Independence at 70 and was named CEO of Pennsylvania at 79. *Mother Teresa continued her missionary work until her death at 87. *Arthur Rubinstein gave one of his greatest piano performances at New York's Carnegie Hall at 89. *Golda Meir was named prime minister of Israel at 71 and held that office for 5 years. *Mahatma Gandhi led India's opposition to British rule at 77. *Frank Lloyd Wright completed New York's Guggenheim Museum at 89. |