Thursday, June 28 | 2:30PM - 3:30PM
Toward a Poetics of Aging: A Different Understanding of Life
Dr. Nader Shabahangi offers a new, more complex and rich understanding of life and aging - a radical departure from the dominant paradigm that life is “fulfilled” the prime of life, at the highpoint of a career, or at the peak of one’s power. The Poetics of Aging recognizes that the poem called “life’s poem” finds its final stanza, its completion, only at the very end of life. Aging understood as such is an active process of becoming, learning and growing. We do not get old but grow old. Eldership is the apex of a lifetime of learning and experiencing, of struggle and concern, of being courageous and creative.
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