Seniors

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May 2024 - Yokohama, Japan​
 
We met this woman on a hike in Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains. She had a real glow and sweetness about her. Said she hikes the mountains every day.

Aside from good genes and good karma, I think one of the essentials of aging gracefully is staying engaged. Physically, mentally - whatever - just remaining active and enthusiastic about life seems so important. Not anlways easy in the face of the Long Slow Decline, but may we all give it our best.

Chiricahua Mountains, AZ by John Wolf, on Flickr
 
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JohnWolf said:
Years ago I spent an extended time doing a street photography project on seniors. It was very rewarding to observe, record, and imagine the years of life experience that brings each of us to our particular place in the world of old age. All the years of joy and sorrow, love and loss, and, hopefully, acceptance and contentment. That project deepened my respect and empathy. And then I woke one morning to realize I have joined that demographic and am surprisingly pleased to be there.

Chicago Lakefront | GR by John Wolf, on Flickr
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We are all there with you. But I think we have a duty to ourselves and to the world and society and culture in general, to go there kicking and screaming to the utmost, and to demand change for the better as much as we can. All the more so as we have been there and we have seen it and we are now obviously aware of the moral bankruptcy of much of what is going on in today's world in shoddy politics and morally bankrupt big business. especially the massive confab we are being fed about so-called economic growth, which all but the most stupid among us now realise really means more profits for the rich at the expense of the rest of us.

Today photography has its place in that carefully constructed images can do a lot in exposing the sham that is so-called modern economic expansion - which really means anything that will improve corporate profits, never mind the damage it does to the environment or the dismal legacy uncontrolled expansion will leave to the next generations behind us, one or two of those at best, if even those survive.

I apologize if anyone complains that I am on a soapbox My only concern is for the future, or the lack of it if we continue to go on at the rate we have been comfortable with in our sleep-walking to oblivion.

This post of most excellent images is not the place for politicizing, and I will say no more. Yours is a most inspiring image, and I thank you for having posted it.
 
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DownUnder said:
We are all there with you. But I think we have a duty to ourselves and to the world and society and culture in general, to go there kicking and screaming to the utmost, and to demand change for the better as much as we can. All the more so as we have been there and we have seen it and we are now obviously aware of the moral bankruptcy of much of what is going on in today's world as so-called politics and business. especially the massive confab we are being fed in so-called economic growth, which all but the most stupid among us now realise really means more profits for the rich at the expense of the rest of us.

TOay photography has its place in that carefully constructed images can do a lot in exposing the sham that is so-called modern economic expansion - which really means anything that will improve corporate profits, never mind the damage it does to the environment or the dismal legacy uncontrolled expansion will leave to the next generations behind us, one or two of those at best, if even those survive.

I apologize if anyone complains that I am on a soapbox My only concern is for the future, or the lack of it if we continue to go on at the rate we have been comfortable with in our sleep-walking to oblivion.

This post of most excellent images is not the place for politicizing, and I will say no more. Yours is a most inspiring image, and I thank you for having posted it.
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To mis-quote your previous post, "He can't be a Republican!!". Or, more accurately, you're someone who is refreshingly able to think beyond the convenient tribalist lies were encouraged to embrace. Stay up there on your soapbox; we need people who can think and speak out!
 
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