Catharine Wilson 

Nearing age 80, lifelong seeker and voracious reader, wonder-filled and anxious too. Retired prof of English lang&lit in Canada. Living with (mostly) joy, one day at a time.

Terrific poem! C'est moi -- absolument!! I shudder at any such group-energy, feeling literally repulsed. Always have done. It's a trait I've usually thought of as "Okay -- I don't play well with others ...", but that is NOT it, because mob-movements are not neutral shared play at all. And becasue I'm happy on a companionable small team w…

Do you have an instinctive aversion to mob psychology?

All of the points you share here, Sharon, have proven true-for-me, an elderwoman/crone of 78.5 years. YES to the ongoing evolution of the True Self whilst the body goes its inevitable way toward decay. Around age 65, I learned to love and celebrate a rehabilitation of the notion of Crone, and as a result, I opted to experience all that w…

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