geriatrics

So I was up late again at my mum and dad's last night. Usually that means I end up unintentionally watching the worst of the worst on television, like the Colon Cleanse infomercial and the 700 club. Somehow, I was lucky enough to stumble on THIS amazingness on PBS around 2 am:



So incredible. It's on again tonight at 9 on wgbh. Watch it!

As if I needed another reason to adore the elderly, it's stories like this that remind me of how resilient we all are. We are forced through so many different stages of life and in the end, we are then forced to face death. Still, there is an undercurrent of happiness, satisfaction and even hope through all of these times. It sort of makes all these silly things we stress over seem so trivial. There is so much to be done, but there is still plenty of time to do it all. I hope when I'm an octogenarian, I have such a sense of humour about myself and about the approaching end of my life.