Free to Navel Gaze
Discoveries by E. Marmer
Excellent op-ed about aging at the New York Times! I’m Too Old For This, by Dominique Browning. There is a lot that is annoying, and even terrible, about aging. The creakiness of the body; the drifting of the memory; the reprising of personal history ad nauseam, with only yourself to listen....
They sat at a small table mid-way into the café, four people around a table really only big enough for two. Glynna looked around at Jason and Jason’s parents, Laura and Ken. Their faces were in shadows in the dark café. It made her uncomfortable to not be able...
I’m a balloon in the crisp blue sky! A bright, yellow one, almost bursting. And I love the breeze brushing my cheek As I rise up Set in motion by the soft air and My own inside surge. Surge, Surge, Surge! And then float above. And in that single...
People of a certain age may remember that moment in 1984 when Sally Field won an Oscar for her performance in Places in the Heart. In her acceptance speech she was overcome with emotion. Barely but beautifully managing to remain coherent, she expressed her profound happiness and amazement that...
What’s wrong with navel-gazing anyway?
