…don’t let emb’dy ever claim yeez are to old to be doing stuff… when I was an infant growing up in Docklands Govan in Glasgow, ‘old people’ constituted men and women who had reached the heady age of 20+… then as I progressed into my teens, the upper barrier for the ‘venerables’ moved on to about 40+… by the time my own longevity had stretched to 45, I no longer even thought about ‘age’ as an issue… funny that, coz I can remember back in the Govan days observing many people who ‘wore’ their advancing age like some heavy burden… their step was slower… their actions and even speech patterns lapsed into parentheses of laboured sighs… walking sticks for otherwise healthy folk seemed almost like mandatory implements when they reached the half-century…
…comes now the modern age when the buzz phrases include nonsense like ‘60 is…
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Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 