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Chanter Bohemian Rhapsody

C’est comme la sauce soja : y’a un truc qui fait que quand tu as commencé, impossible de s’arrêter.

Dance with your children

No seduction intended, it’s pure joy, a pure celebration of life

De l’importance des cérémonies

Des remises de diplôme aux enterrements

Let’s be honest about our eco-friendly life

It sucks. Plane-free holidays aren’t as diverse and thrilling, a vegetarian diet isn’t as tasty, chemical-free deodorants never work as well as the old ones, organic shampoo doesn’t make nice foam and doesn’t smell as good… the list is endless. RIP my former, careless, scented, beautiful life.

Disheartened

In French when you are découragé it means you lose your courage, in English you lose your heart. How much worse is that ?

Aging is hard on the rebellious

My mom was never very good at acceptance. She would always start by saying no. Getting old, however, is not something you can refuse forever. And in old age, the peaceful, submissive, fatalistic kind of women (and men, but mostly women) fare much better than the rebellious kind. She was never good at accepting her defeats, and she sees aging as a defeat. Does it have to be so? Can’t you see it as a process, with some physical limitations, but also some improvements ? Moral betterment maybe ? Working on what to transmit, and transmitting it ?

Bleak

« Bleak » has never been a more appropriate word than now. Bleak prospects, the future looks bleak… I love that word, it carries its very bleakness in its short, dull, cold and uninspiring sound. Somewhat like « decay », another of my favorite words, on the dark side.

Solace

Assuage vicarious perfunctorily…

Old age is hard on the rebellious. Accepting your limitations, feeling your own body letting you down.

Just stop talking, please, just stop.

Quote: « Patience is a privilege »

Corto Maltese says that the Coran says so, in Les Ethiopiques. I could never find the reference, though. Too bad because it’s a profound thought, one you understand as you get older, more impatient because you start running out of time.