Jeremy Bentham, 84 “The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection” One day on an umbrella afternoon in London, I walked through Bloomsbury, up Gower Street to the University College London to pay a visit with Jeremy Bentham who died in 1832. You too can meet
Vivian Maier, 83 “I suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It’s a wheel. You get on, you have to go to the end. And then somebody has the same opportunity to go to the end and so on…” Long before Facebook, Instagram and today’s addictive “Selfie”’
Louis Kahn, 73 “I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. What was, has always been. What is, has always been and what will be, has always been. Such is the nature of beginning.” Some are born to see what
P.D. James, 94 “I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.” Phyllis Dorothy died peacefully 27th November in Oxford, England at age 94. Tough as old boots one might glean from reading her biography; leaving
According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global average life expectancy statistics, a boy born in 2012 can expect to reach age 68 and a girl 73. This takes into account regional health and socioeconomic variables from low-income to high-income countries. While I research these kinds of data most of the year, I thought it
Picking up on Jonathan Chevreau’s Financial Independence Hub category “Debt & Frugality”, I mused on how that seems like some new play on Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility when it comes to our current dilemma – how good are we at (what I prefer to call) ”financing longevity”? Chevreau’s FindependenceHub category “Debt & Frugality” echoes