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If Cynthia Has To Age, She Wants To Do It Gracefully.
Our new friend Cynthia wants to age gracefully. So buckle up everyone, it's time to face our own mortality! This is something Anne and Gale have thought about since they were small children, but we guess Cynthia's a late bloomer. Caroline finds comfort in growing older into a Julia Louis Dreyfus. Anne's older spirit animal is Dianne Keaton, and of course her mom! Gale and Caroline suggest Cynthia look inward and try taking stock of her happiness in her "golden years". Caroline gets zen, Gale teaches us how to tap dance with the help of Rachel Green and Anne tells Cynthia to make out with her life. Ultimately we all agree that youth is in the eye of someone who's young; and if you're not young, that's ok! Also, you're never too old to discover Ann Patchett and Oliver Sacks.
Cynthia's fountain of recommendations to leave her youth behind:
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text (podcast) Gale
Julia Louis Dreyfus (person) Caro
Veep (show) Caro
Inside Amy Schumer sketch “Last Fuckable Day” (sketch) Caro
Diane Keaton (person) Anne
Book Club (movie) Gale’s mom
Do the wild thing! Gale
The Artist’s Way (book) Caro
Finale Episode of 30 Rock (tv episode) Gale
Buddhism “Are you living out your values?” (religion) Caro
"This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage" by Ann Patchett (collection of essays) Anne
"Love sustained" (essay in above book) Caro
Ann Patchett (person) Anne
The Gale experience of Ann Patchett (experience) Gale
“The One With The Fake Monica” Friends (tv episode) Gale
Get into a hobby you’re bad at! (activity) Gale
"My life was the size of my life" (poem) The Beauty (book) Anne
"On the Move: A Life" by Oliver Sacks (book) Caro
"My Own Life" by Oliver Sacks (NYT column) Caro
Oliver Sacks on RadioLab (radio program/podcast) Caro
"Seducing The Asparagus Queen" by Amorak Huey Gale
"The Immortalists" by Chloe Benjamin (book) Gale
"The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark (book) Caro
Anne’s mom’s perspective. Anne
“An Old Story” By Tracy K. Smith (poem) Anne
"You Are Not Dead" by Wendy Xu (book) "We Are Both Sure To Die" page 66 (poem) Caro
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Our new friend Cynthia wants to age gracefully. So buckle up everyone, it's time to face our own mortality! This is something Anne and Gale have thought about since they were small children, but we guess Cynthia's a late bloomer. Caroline finds comfort in growing older into a Julia Louis Dreyfus. Anne's older spirit animal is Dianne Keaton, and of course her mom! Gale and Caroline suggest Cynthia look inward and try taking stock of her happiness in her "golden years". Caroline gets zen, Gale teaches us how to tap dance with the help of Rachel Green and Anne tells Cynthia to make out with her life. Ultimately we all agree that youth is in the eye of someone who's young; and if you're not young, that's ok! Also, you're never too old to discover Ann Patchett and Oliver Sacks.
Cynthia's fountain of recommendations to leave her youth behind:
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text (podcast) Gale
Julia Louis Dreyfus (person) Caro
Veep (show) Caro
Inside Amy Schumer sketch “Last Fuckable Day” (sketch) Caro
Diane Keaton (person) Anne
Book Club (movie) Gale’s mom
Do the wild thing! Gale
The Artist’s Way (book) Caro
Finale Episode of 30 Rock (tv episode) Gale
Buddhism “Are you living out your values?” (religion) Caro
"This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage" by Ann Patchett (collection of essays) Anne
"Love sustained" (essay in above book) Caro
Ann Patchett (person) Anne
The Gale experience of Ann Patchett (experience) Gale
“The One With The Fake Monica” Friends (tv episode) Gale
Get into a hobby you’re bad at! (activity) Gale
"My life was the size of my life" (poem) The Beauty (book) Anne
"On the Move: A Life" by Oliver Sacks (book) Caro
"My Own Life" by Oliver Sacks (NYT column) Caro
Oliver Sacks on RadioLab (radio program/podcast) Caro
"Seducing The Asparagus Queen" by Amorak Huey Gale
"The Immortalists" by Chloe Benjamin (book) Gale
"The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark (book) Caro
Anne’s mom’s perspective. Anne
“An Old Story” By Tracy K. Smith (poem) Anne
"You Are Not Dead" by Wendy Xu (book) "We Are Both Sure To Die" page 66 (poem) Caro