Sepia Saturday this week:
Copenhagen and bicycles?--------------------
Who knew all this would happen afterward!
Sepia Saturday this week:
Copenhagen and bicycles?Remembering the last time I flew on a plane, I said “I didn’t have to take my shoes off, but maybe it was because I was old.”
And that was a couple of years ago.
“OK, so now you're "after old.”
I wonder what to call it…this free life without the encumbrance of being elderly. Certainly not “dead!”
I’m going to stew on it a while…
It's been fun thinking about what to call my life, my daily existence. Another blogger was talking about what generations are called these days. I wonder when we started naming each generation, anyway.
I remember when I studied psychology, there were all these stages of mankind...you know, infant to elders. And now so many people in their 50s are considering themselves middle aged...but when in mid-60s they often used to retire.
Many people now work into their 70s. These people are certainly what used to be considered "old" but certainly not elderly. As I hit my 80s I didn't mind calling myself an elder. I even toyed for some years with being a crone. Just couldn't get anyone else on board that this was a good thing, however.
So far I've thought maybe Apex...or something along those lines. Pinnacle?
Survivor? Certainly Thriver.
Put your thinking caps on and make some good suggestions.
That is, of course, if you are interested in this post-elderly existence!
She is really intelligent, and well trained. I'm looking forward to having 5 days taking care of her...playing catch at least twice a day.
So now that AC and Sue have given up their pooch sitting, Ill be on duty. Of course there's also Shiva, the cat!
A family funeral has pulled my son out of town, so I'm staying at his place for a while.
Buckminster Fuller developed and tested his first prototype geodesic domes during his summer sessions at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1948 and 1949. The first dome of 1948 lacked structural integrity and failed to rise, collapsing into a heap that Fuller and his students humorously nicknamed the "Supine Dome.” Fuller returned in the summer of 1949 with a sturdier design using aircraft tubing and internal cables. The photo shown here documents the BMC community after successfully erecting the Autonomous Dwelling Facility prototype, which was strong enough to support weight and paved the way for Fuller’s 1954 geodesic dome patent.
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Hazel Larsen Archer, Construction of the Geodesic Dome, 1949. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
From Black Mountain College FaceBook page