- Bob Dylan in NYT: “The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore. You’re an old king from some vanished country. You’re harder to program. You’re not rushing to become anything and you’re not haunted by things that you did. You’re haunted by how little of it really mattered in the way you thought it would.
“The worst thing about being 80 is that you still want to say yes to everything, but the world moves without asking. The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions. People treat you like either you’ve solved something or you’ve lost something, and you haven’t. You see life repeating itself everywhere.
“The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered. When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t, it stands still. We’re the ones that move.” - “Tokenmaxxing” is now a problem.
- Brad Wilcox interviews Freya India about Girls.
- “People ages 18 to 29 express higher levels of happiness about the future than those 65 and older,” according to Pew.
- Parents are breaking the bank on berries, says WaPo: “American’s berry eating has shifted from seasonal treat to year-round habit in a generation. The supply of strawberries per person has more than tripled since 1980, from under two pounds a year to nearly seven, on average. Blueberries have gone from a supply of less than three ounces per person a year in 1980 to more than two pounds per year today. Other fruits have not followed: per capita supply of apples, bananas and grapefruit has fallen since 2000.”