Changing Aging Blogs
[Is your blog changing aging? Let us know at changingaging AT gmail DOT com]
- Ageless Marketing
- A Little Red Hen
- Better Than I Ever Expected
- Boomers
- Cab Drollery
- Duplex Planet
- EChronicles
- Ecumen's Changing Aging Blog
- EdlerAbuse.org
- Elder Law Issues
- Elder Storytelling Place
- Embodied Aging
- Global Ageing Network Blog
- Maya's Granny
- O'Folks
- Real Sage Advice
- Remembering Matters
- The Boomer Chronicles
- The Savvy Boomer
- The Story of Stuff
- Time Goes By
- Women's Voices for Change
Politics
- Daily Kos
- Grasping Reality
- The Huffington Post
- Talking Points Memo
- Think Progress
- The Washington Monthly
Media & Culture
- CJR Daily
- FAIR's Media Views
- FuturePundit
- Infomaniac: Behind the News
- Social Media
- Romenesko
- Truemors
Health & Science
News
Changing Aging Books
Search
Recent Posts
- ChangingAging.org Redesign -- Please Bookmark!
- Disaster in Buffalo
- Power Up Friday
- Blanchard WinsDays
- Kevin Frick writes...
- Monkhouse Monday
- Getting Closer!
- Blanchard WinsDays
- Power Up Friday
- My Pick for Health and Human Services
- Understanding Health Care Reform
- Facts Are Stubborn Things: Social Security Edition
- Monkhouse Monday
- Localism is Coming
- Krugman Can't Wait...
Recent Comments
- SuzyR on
The God of Longevity - Dr. Bill Thomas on
The God of Longevity - SunnySchlenger on
The God of Longevity - Brenda - MAgS on
The God of Longevity
Category Archives
- AGING 100
- Aging
- Culture
- Dementia
- Eden Alternative
- Erickson School
- Green House
- Health Policy
- Longevity
- Media
- Rockets
Monthly Archives
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
Subscribe to this blog's feed
Blog Data
« She Bang | Main | At War Over Lipitor »
November 4, 2007 |Permalink |Comments (4)
The God of Longevity
One of the Fu Lok Sau Trio, Shou Xing is depicted here carrying peaches (these perishable fruits are thought to represent immortality) and a good fortune bat.
More to come on Shou Xing later this week.
Comments ( 4)
Saw a good movie last night – “Away from Her.” This Canadian film takes a look at the changing relationship between a devoted husband and wife who must come to grips with the affects of Alzheimers disease. As someone who works in a long term care environment, I tried to view the film through the eyes of the patient (the wife), the husband, the caregivers and the administrator. After watching the film, my husband commented on how awful this disease is, that takes away people’s dignity. I realized we were seeing the same film through different filters. While the disease is terrible, and the husband suffered greatly, the wife with the disease was relatively content. She was fortunate to live in a demential care facility where she was well cared for. Her dignity was intact. She began to care for another resident and people enjoyed her company. She wasn’t the same person, but she was still making a unique contribution. Without giving away too much of the movie, I would recommend watching it to anyone working in a LTC environment. It’s interesting to see our “workplace” from the perspective of the person for whom it is a care facility. The movie stars Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis.
********************
I also tried to send a post for the Halloween section related to terminal adolescence. If it came through, it was not complete -- the page 'disappeared' before I could finish it. Please let me know and I'll correct it and/or resubmit.
I adore peaches, but I have no desire to be immortal! Other than having the usual aging-related physical issues, I'm finding that I continue to love being whatever age I am.
I wanted to say that I really enjoyed your two-part interview with Ronni. It was a pleasure to hear such common sense being articulated by a younger man. Thank you! :-)
Thanks for the nice comment and the best news is that tomorrow I will wake up one day older that I was the day before.
Funny the way that works...
You mean all I have to do to achieve an extraordinarily long life and perhaps even immortality is eat peaches (every day, I suppose) and carry around a bat (live, I suppose)? Hey, sounds doable to me!
Wow, and here I thought I'd have to buy, and read, Choprah's and Oz's books.
I googled the Fu Lok Sau trio and discovered that this peach-eating, bat-bearing guy (named Shou Xing) costs only $14.90 at a Feng Shui shop. A bargain at any price, eh? For the amazing benefits, I mean.