The Vanities of Age
Want to grow old gracefully? Less striving, more love.
Want to grow old gracefully? Less striving, more love.
Do these people not know that now is now is now is NOW?
How do we stay plugged into a society that is fast losing any moral compass—and keep our own?
I am not sure which would appall my mother more: “dip chiller” to name her receptacle for delicate, extravagant shrimp, or me asking an artificial intelligence to remind me what she taught me.
Cicero: “An enormous house is often a discredit to the owner, if there is an emptiness about the place.”
When I defended likability, I sounded, even to my own ears, naïve.
Somehow I had come to think of the Bible as stuck together from the start, a sacred, ordained book on which we speak our oaths...
For eighteen years, I have been returning home, sliding that brass key into the lock, and stepping into comfort. Now I tense before I even try.
On Saturdays, my mom and I went shopping, and around three in the afternoon, I would ask, in a small plaintive voice, “Mom, did we have lunch today?”
Aw, you humans have been scared of tech forever, the AI says....