Imagine the scene, comfortable and familiar — a group of friends gathered in a cozy apartment, tasty snacks spread about, in one room a turntable is spinning classic rock, from another room comes successive bursts of uproarious laughter from those…
By Stuart Greenbaum and Kathryn Cherkas What happens when two-dozen adult day center participants, ages 68-98, come together to critique a feature film — “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” for instance? Well … a handful walked out mid-screening, some fell…
Humankind has forever struggled to answer the existential question of whether we’re inherently good or evil, humane or selfish. It’s become an even tougher call in these disgruntled and divisive times. Like calling a batter’s check-swing, it depends on where…
Do a Google search of “gaslighting” and you’ll find more than four-million results. Chalk it up to the new abnormal in which agitator-in-chief Donald Trump is redefining the English language. His contributions are both expansive and reductive. To be specific,…
ARCHIVE UPDATE [from 4-17-18] — Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is the capacity to interrelate with compassion, concern, consideration. With respect to longevity, it is empathetic to appreciate the aging experience, both…
It all started with The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, Buffalo Springfield and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Since the sixties I’ve been an obsessive consumer of music — first on vinyl, then cassette and for the past 30 years on CD. My selective…
Give credit to the writer of The New York Times article (7-10-19) about the affordable housing rent crisis for older Californians for concluding with the following quote from one 65-year-old resident: “That 10 percent cap doesn’t help most low-income people,…
ARCHIVE UPDATE [from 2-12-19] — The first time this essay posted on Humble Sky, the Comment section was disabled. Probably a random glitch with the server or blog platform. Although … the content did condemn the practices of Google and…
California is woefully unprepared for the needs and demands of the “gray wave” of aging baby boomers. The doom and gloom prognostication for our state in which the “senior citizen” population will double within a decade is expressed by several…
She said “No,” so I naturally assumed she simply didn’t understand what I was asking. Since my initial request to her friend or sister was received with a shrug and something in Spanish. I gestured that I was simply asking…
