OR La chanson des vieux amants... _{A dazzlingly lovely song by Jacques Brel, sung by Judy Collins back in the 60s...}

(...and various other thoughts on getting older...another ramble, so read this only if you're in a patient mood...or "feeling your age" yourself!)

Not that it's an issue for the great majority of us...but guess what, it does happen! (And GUESS WHAT, it's a lot better than you might think! )

I just turned 60 - don't know whether that means I'm already an "old lover" or (per my grandfather) that I will be, in another 15 years. (He used to say, at least once a year, "In 15 years I'll be old.")

Then there was my uncle: once upon a time when he was in his eighties, I answered a remark of his with, "I'm 43 - I'm not a kid anymore." He just looked at me...and looked at me...and finally smiled...and replied: "I am."

Nevertheless, the jump in the "tens digit" from age 59 (which seems to have lasted long enough) starts me thinking about stuff. Plus, I just sent off a note to a lady who is all of 32 (which, to some of you, is OLD!!!!!) reassuring her that REAL beauty does not fade, even if PRETTINESS sometimes does.

well, hey, real beauty DOESN'T fade. Even prettiness doesn't ALWAYS fade, though let's face it, sometimes it does. I just tried experimenting with a portrait of a lady who must be at least in her mid to late fifties [link] - granted, it takes some genetic luck to age quite as cutely as Pandora's Mamma has done.

Pandora's Mamma: Not just luck, caro mio. I DO take care of myself. Not like SOME of us our age...

The whole point of this journal is to repeat something I said to that nervous lady of newly 32, and I'm going to tell this to my girlfriend Janet too! (she's MY age):

At 60, my girlfriend and I move slower than we would have done long ago, but our LOVE is all the deeper.

Yup, it works that way. _{And FURTHERMORE, orgasms feel JUST as good, even if us males don't have QUITE so many of them at this age. Plus we can hold on longer...hey dude, didja ever come too soon for your lady? Get older!}

OK, all of this stuff means that I gotta say some more about sex!

Fwiw, any patience I feel toward ascetics and sex-haters of any age, is merely humane - hey, they're people too, in their way! God loves them TOO, IN SPITE of their deficiency, not BECAUSE of it. </rant>

I still post renders of some VERY sexy ladies. They are younger than I am, to be sure, because even I am not immune to the stereotype that young = sexually attractive. I appreciate women my own age...but hey, I appreciate women of ALL ages. I love the story of the 19th century archaeologist (wish I could remember his name) who died at 105 when he crashed his buggy after turning to look at a pretty girl. Hope I die that way!

I have recently wondered about the question of the Chronophontians getting older. For a long time I simply assumed that time does not pass in Chronophontia, and the ladies do not get physically older. But now Natasha has a baby on the way, and over the next six months or so (she started in July) her appearance is going to change. Then she'll have a baby, who will grow from infant to toddler to preschooler to...whatever, however long I keep rendering Chronophontians!

Not that I anticipate being 90 in the year 2039 and having a gallery full of late-middle-aged Chronophontians running around naked and being late-middle-aged sexy. (Plus Natasha's 29-year-old daughter presumably running around naked, presumably with more general success.) Let's face it, I have no idea what will happen between now and then. I don't even assume that I'll live that long!



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