We are going to run a series on anti-aging quackery.
Here’s our first entry.
By they way I could not make it all the way through the video.
I feel sorry for this nice lady and wish she could feel more comfortable with her true self…
About Bill Thomas
Bill is a visionary leader in the online Changing Aging movement and a world-renowned authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare. Bill is founder of two movements to reshape long-term care globally – The Eden Alternative and Green House Project. He is currently traveling the country influencing culture change with the ChangingAging Tour.
Al Power says
August 30, 2010 at 6:11 amBeautiful quote, Dorothea. It occurs to me that this could also be applied to the threads on caring for loved ones with dementia.
Dorothea Johnson says
August 29, 2010 at 6:38 am“A flourishing human life is not a life lived with an ageless body or untroubled soul, but rather a life lived in rhythmed time, mindful of time’s limits, appreciative of each season and filled first of all with those intimate human relations that are ours only because we are born, age, replace ourselves, decline, and die—and know it. It is a life of aspiration, made possible by and born of experienced lack, of the disproportion between the transcendent longings of the soul and the limited capacities of our bodies and minds. It is a life that stretches towards some fulfillment to which our natural human soul has been oriented, and, unless we extirpate the source, will always be oriented. It is a life not of better genes and enhancing chemicals but of love and friendship, song and dance, speech and deed, working and learning, revering and worshipping. The pursuit of an ageless body is finally a distraction and a deformation. The pursuit of an untroubled and self-satisfied soul is deadly to desire. Finitude recognized spurs aspiration. Fine aspiration acted upon is itself the core of happiness. Not the agelessness of the body, nor the contentment of the soul, nor even the list of external achievement and accomplishments of life, but the engaged and energetic being-at-work of what nature uniquely gave to us is what we need to treasure and defend. All other perfection is at best a passing illusion, at worst a Faustian bargain that will cost us our full and flourishing humanity.” – Leon Kass.
Dear lady,
You are indeed very beautiful. But please know that this is a gift that Mother Nature has given you and not the result of some cosmetic regime. The quote above is for you so that you learn to “treasure and defend” your unique beauty!
dale says
August 26, 2010 at 7:31 amI thought the video was great and gave good information. What’s wrong with wanting to look your best as you age???