This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite

Author:Ashton Applewhite [Applewhite, Ashton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Networked Books
Published: 2016-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

If these depictions of late-life passion seem odd, it’s only because they’re so unfamiliar. As more people join the ranks, a literature will surely emerge.

In 1978, in the same pages as Begley’s essay (the Sunday New York Times Op-Ed section), the poet May Sarton wrote:

“Love, we still think, many of us, is for the young. But what do they really know about it? It is hard for them to differentiate between sexual passion and love itself, for instance.

If the whole of life is a journey toward old age, then I believe it is also a journey toward love. And love may be as intense in old age as it was in youth, only it is different, set in a wider arc, and the more precious because the time we have to enjoy it is bound to be brief.”

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